Talk:Royal manuscripts, British Library

Name
I don't think MoS like commans. How about a move to Royal manuscripts at the British Library? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; talk to me 08:31, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Commas are ok if needed. Here it is necessary to indicated that "Royal" is a title or name for the collection rather than just an ordinary adjective. "comma place" is very common in titles! Johnbod (talk) 12:11, 11 November 2011 (UTC)


 * How about just Royal Manuscripts? The word manuscripts would be capitalised because this is a proper name, being a particular collection.  See A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology for an example of this usage: "Among the many other important collections of manuscripts subsequently acquired are the Royal Manuscripts, comprising collections of British monarchs since Edward IV...".   If we make the title a proper name, the British Library qualification is no longer needed as there are no similar competing titles and we are not now talking about royal manuscripts in general. Andrew Davidson (talk) 23:04, 20 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Maybe, but it is pretty ambiguous for the average reader. I'm not sure how general a capital M is; the standard BL form is MS Royal + the number, though I see they use it here. I think keeping the disam is still preferable. Johnbod (talk) 23:21, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Traheron
The exhibition catalogue seems quite prepared to blame Bartholomew Traheron personally for the cull of Catholic liturgical manuscripts. It goes into quite some detail (p. 74), which is probably out of place here. Traheron is also given credit for the consolidation of 1549, but the evidence is internal to the numerical cataloguing series. Again the details might be over the top here. But I think he deserves to be in, on the presumption that he was an activist librarian. Makes me wonder how many others there were who treated the position as more than sinecure. By the way, Anthony Aucher is in the ODNB. Charles Matthews (talk) 21:28, 18 November 2011 (UTC)