5.1B1.
Serial Numbers:
Transcribe as part of the title proper a serial number (whether it appears as arabic or roman numerals or spelled out) which appear in conjunction with title but without the designation "no." or its equivalent, regardless of the nature of the title.
Multiple Parallel Data:
When succeeding statements of key, etc., are broken up in the source rather than grouped together by language, transcribe the statements so that all elements in one language are together. Treat the first group of elements in one language as part of the title proper and precede each one after the first by an equals sign.
Adopt the following solutions for data that are other title information or statements of responsibility and that are only partially repeated from language to language. For such a problem with a statement of responsibility, rule 1.1F10 provides a solution in the third paragraph ("If it is no practicable ...") by saying to give the statement that marches the language of the title proper and to omit the other statement(s).
There is no comparable "if it is not practicable ..." provision in the rule for other title information, yet the same difficulty of transcription arises with partial repetition of other title information. Nonetheless, apply the same idea to other title information.
If no real match in languages is possible, then give the first of the language forms, matching at least the other title information with the statement of responsibility if possible.
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