The Hon. Nancy Beatrice Borwick, Lady Croft (1884-1949)
Portrait by Philip Alexius László de Lombos
(viewed in email from the Royal Oak Foundation,
the American affiliate of the National Trust of England,
Wales and Northern Ireland)
Never having heard of Philip Alexius László de Lombos, I naturally (it being me) checked the LC/NAF authority file for the painter. I picked "lombos" as my entry word for a left-anchored browse and found nothing. Not Lombos at all. Never give up too early. Searched "laszlo" and found him:
| 010 | __ |a no2004037532 |
|---|---|
| 035 | __ |a (OCoLC)oca06327328 |
| 040 | __ |a ICU |b eng |e rda |c ICU |d DLC |d FU |
| 046 | __ |f 1869 |g 1937 |2 edtf |
| 100 | 1_ |a László, Fülöp, |d 1869-1937 |
| 400 | 1_ |a De László, Philip Alexius, |d 1869-1937 |
| 400 | 1_ |a László de Lombos, Philip Alexius de, |d 1869-1937 |
| 400 | 1_ |a László, Fülöp Elek, |d 1869-1937 |
| 400 | 1_ |a László, Philip de, |d 1869-1937 |
What? No reference from Lombos??
The Royal Oak Foundation email was about the "National Trust Property of the Week" -- Croft Castle in Herefordshire. The Crofts had settled there by the time of the Domesday Book and the castle dates to the 14th and 15th centuries. The Crofts lost the house in 1746 but were back in 1923. The house went to the National Trust in 1956, not that we'll be able to visit it any time soon.
Wouldn’t that be a variant of a variant? Or is that too AACR2y?
ReplyDeleteI'm a longtime NACO cataloger and am a great fan of adherence to a continuing (post-AACR2/LCRI) reasonable application of the variants of variants principle. Variants of variants apply to all elements to the left of the comma and the first element to the right of the comma, in a common "surname, forename(s)" personal name. Adding a reference from Lombos would not be a variant of a variant since Lombos is new on the left of the comma. In this example, there is a variant of variant, the third 400 wherein Fülüp is the first element on the right of the comma in both the heading and that reference. The "footnote" to the variants of variants policy was always that you could apply cataloger judgment.
ReplyDeleteSadly you can't get back to edit a comment. Sorry about the misspelled forename in my first round. And now I'm not on a Mac so I don't readily know how to add the umlauts to the forename.
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