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What is an index?

Chapter 17: Manuscripts.
By Henry B. Wheatley
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The pamphlet opens with a historical survey of the word index and its shifting meanings, tracing early usages, notable opinions, and illustrative specimens; it then provides practical guidance on making indexes, covering compilation techniques, concise and accurate headings, alphabetical order versus classification, treatment of names and prefixes, cross-references, and frequent errors; examples and critiques are used throughout to show good and bad practice and to argue for organized efforts to improve indexing standards.

INDEXES TO CATALOGUES.

British Catalogue.—Index to the British Catalogue of Books published during the years 1837 to 1857 inclusive. By Sampson Low. 1858. 8vo.

pp. 292, xxx, and xlviii, in double columns, really compiled by Dr. Crestadoro, Librarian of the Manchester Free Library.

—— An Index to Current Literature, comprising a Reference to Author and Subject of Every Book in the English Language, and to Articles in Literature, Science and Art in Serial Publications, 1859, 1860, 1861. London (Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 47 Ludgate Hill), 1862.

This most valuable Index was published quarterly; its failure is a loss to literature, for it was very carefully compiled.

London Catalogue of Books.—Classified Index, 1814 to 1846. London (Hodgson), 1848. 8vo.

—— 1816 to 1851. London (Hodgson), 1853. 8vo.

College of Surgeons.—Classified Index to the Catalogue of the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons. London, 1853. 8vo.

Lambeth Library.—An Index of such English Books printed before the year 1600 as are now in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth. Published by ... the Rev. S. R. Maitland, Librarian. London (F. & J. Rivington), 1845. 8vo. pp. xii, 120.

Med. and Chir. Soc.—Index to the Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, containing an alphabetical List of Subjects, with the names of the authors. [By B. R. Wheatley.] London (J. E. Adlard), 1860. 8vo. pp. vii, 293.

A new Catalogue and a new Index are now in the press.

New York State Library.—Subject-Index of the General Library. Albany, 1872. 8vo. pp. xviii, 651.

Trin. Coll. Camb.—An Index to such English Books printed before the year 1600 as are now in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. By Edward Cranwell, Under Librarian. Cambridge, 1847. 8vo. pp. 68.

Manuscripts.

Baker MSS.—Index to the Baker MSS., by Four Members of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. 1848. 8vo.

Bodleian Library.—Index to the Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Elias Ashmole preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, and now deposited in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. By the Rev. W. D. Macray. Oxford, 1866. 4to. pp. 188 in triple cols.

In one alphabet.

—— Index to the Catalogue (vols. 1 and 2) of the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian Library. By the Rev. W. D. Macray. Oxford, 1878. 4to. pp. 565-992.

British Museum.—Index to the Additional MSS. with those of the Egerton Collection, 1783-1835. London, 1849. Fol. pp. iv, 514.

—— Indexes to the Additional MSS, 1836-1845. London, folio.

—— Preface and Index to the Catalogue of the Harleian MSS. London, 1763. Fol.