3.3.4.1  Place of Origin

The verification list for Country displays the data that you have already entered into your own copy of the database; this is not a closed list and you may enter any country you like:  even Oz or Middle Earth (although it's not a Best Practices recommendation to enter silly data).  There are too many "countries" in medieval Europe in the thousand years of its history, for us to compile a definitive list and impose it upon the DS membership overall.  We assume, however, that a particular collection and a particular cataloguer may have frequent and preferred names of countries; the listing of what has already been entered into your institutional copy of DS-Access will build some amount of in-house consistency and accuracy, even in typing (e.g. Low Countries or Netherlands?  Italy not Itlay).