Question: Some dates are both bracketed and italicized. This is an editorial directive used in the volumes to distinguish between conjectural dates (bracketed) and editorially supplied dates (bracketed and italicized). The use of italics was not used in the early days of the control file (because typewriters could not create italics) but occasionally the text was underlined. The italics and underlining practices are not uniformly applied throughout the catalogue.
Resolution: Brackets will be used to indicate any uncertain date (whether conjectural, incomplete, supplied, etc.). Dates inside of brackets will NOT retain an italics or underlining.
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