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<catchwords>

catchwords

describes the system used to ensure correct ordering of the quires or similar making up a codex, incunable, or other object typically by means of annotations at the foot of the page.

Module msdescriptionmsmisc

Attributes

Classes and content

Member of
May contain

dictionaries

gaiji

header

textcrit

textstructure

Character data

  • character data
Contained by

analysis

cmc

linking

spoken

tagdocs

Example

<catchwords>Vertical catchwords in the hand of the scribe placed along
the inner bounding line, reading from top to bottom.</catchwords>

Schematron

<constraintSpec xmlns:sch="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron" ident="catchword_in_msDesc" scheme="schematron" xml:lang="en">
    
    <constraint>
      <sch:rule context="tei:catchwords">
        <sch:assert test="ancestor::tei:msDesc or ancestor::tei:egXML">The &lt;<sch:name/>&gt; element should not be used outside of &lt;msDesc&gt;.</sch:assert>
      </sch:rule>
    </constraint> 
  </constraintSpec>

Content model

<content>
    <macroRef key="macro.phraseSeq"/>
  </content>