3.3.4 Place and Date of Origin

Place and date of origin are tricky for manuscripts:  hard to assign, problematic to search, crucial for research.  So for these two fundamental concepts, DS-Access provides options and granularity, while forcing the cataloguer to say something.  If you can't even begin to guess, if your legacy data is silent, if you've no manuscript-studies friend you can impose upon, you could always put "Undetermined" in the Country and in the Date fields, but only as a last resort; how many DS users are going to search for "Undetermined"?