LC-PCC policy statements for preferred title of religious work

Prerecording

Recording

Recording an unstructured description

Sacred scripture

Condition Option

LC/PCC practice: Choose as the preferred title the title by which the work is most commonly identified in reference sources in English.

Part of a sacred scripture

Part of the Bible

Testament of the Bible

Book of the Bible

Condition Option

LC/PCC practice: Apply the option. Use the form 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc., for the English ordinal numeral.

Group of books of the Bible

Single selection from an individual book of the Bible

Condition Option

LC/PCC practice: Do not apply the option.

Two or more complete selections from the Bible

Other selections from the Bible

Part of the Talmud

Selection from the Talmud

Part of the Mishnah and Tosefta

Midrash

Anonymous midrash

Compilation of midrashim

Part of Buddhist scriptures

Part of the Pali canon of Buddhist scriptures

Part of the Sanskrit canon of Buddhist scriptures

Part of the Vedas

Part of the Aranyakas, Brahmanas, and Upanishads

Part of the Jaina Āgama

Part of the Avesta

Condition Option

LC/PCC practice: Record the title in English.

Part of the Qur’an

Chapter, part, etc. of the Qur'an

Verse of the Qur'an

Apocryphal book

Condition Option

LC/PCC practice: Choose as the preferred title the title commonly found in sources in English.

Theological creed, confession of faith, etc.

Condition Option

LC/PCC practice: Choose as the preferred title a well-established title in English.

Liturgical work

Early Catholic liturgical work

Recent Catholic liturgical work

Jewish liturgical work

Part of a liturgical work

Condition Option

LC/PCC practice: Record as the preferred title a well-established title for the observance, etc., in English if there is one.

Office or mass

Numbered plainsong setting

Data provenance

LC/PCC practice: Apply this option if 1) the metadata has been taken from a source other than the manifestation being described and there is a requirement to record that source OR 2) if directed to do so by other LC/PCC documentation.

Recording a structured description

Recording an identifier

Recording an IRI

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