Cataloguing Discrepancies

'Andrew Hughes is the world's foremost musicologist of medieval liturgy, and this distinction is affirmed by his collaboration with Matthew Cheung Salisbury and Heather Robbins. Cataloguing Discrepancies is a scholarly exploration of the highest quality of the intricacies and challenges inherent in tracing an early printed source's origins and lineage. Along with offering important information about a particular breviary, this book develops an exemplary, systematic methodology for further study that is of significant value to researchers in the field.' -- Kay Slocum, Gerhold Professor of Humanities, Department of History, Capital University 'Cataloguing Discrepancies is a remarkable work, covering an impressive range of scholarship old and new on the York Breviary. The authors set forth a new codicological ground for this liturgical book's 1493 edition, with broad implications for the study of incunabula that are both exciting and pertinent.' -- Graeme M. Boone, School of Music, The Ohio State University

Cataloguing Discrepancies reviews the description and cataloguing, from the early eighteenth century to the present day, of an early English Breviary, printed in 1493.

Cataloguing Discrepancies reviews the description and cataloguing, from the early eighteenth century to the present day, of an early English Breviary, printed in 1493. With a critical eye, Andrew Hughes summarizes the work that has been done on this liturgical book, of which two complete copies and a number of fragments are extant. How these copies have been described - and more importantly how these accounts differ - is a central question of this volume.

Based on the discrepancies and errors in the existing catalogues of medieval liturgical books, many of which repeat erroneous information for generations, the authors illustrate the defects, problems, and opportunities encountered when technologies of the fifteenth and the twenty-first centuries converge. Not only questioning existing bibliographical practices, Cataloguing Discrepancies suggests practical means for improvements to the future description of early printed books of this kind.