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<msContents>

manuscript contents

describes the intellectual content of a manuscript, manuscript part, or other object either as a series of paragraphs or as a series of structured manuscript items.

Module msdescriptionmsco

Attributes

Global and inherited attributes:
att.global @xml:id@n@xml:lang@xml:base@xml:space
att.global.analytic @ana
att.global.change @change
att.global.facs @facs
att.global.linking @corresp@synch@sameAs@copyOf@next@prev@exclude@select
att.global.rendition @rend@style@rendition
att.global.responsibility @cert@resp
att.global.source @source
att.msClass @class
att.msExcerpt @defective

Classes and content

May contain

core

linking

msdescription

textstructure

Contained by

msdescription

namesdates

Note

Unless it contains a simple prose description, this element should contain at least one of the elements summary, msItem, or msItemStruct. This constraint is not currently enforced by the schema.

Examples

<msContents class="#sermons">
  <p>A collection of Lollard sermons</p>
</msContents>

<msContents>
  <msItem n="1">
    <locus>fols. 5r-7v</locus>
    <title>An ABC</title>
    <bibl>
      <title>IMEV</title>
      <biblScope>239</biblScope>
    </bibl>
  </msItem>
  <msItem n="2">
    <locus>fols. 7v-8v</locus>
    <title xml:lang="frm">Lenvoy de Chaucer a Scogan</title>
    <bibl>
      <title>IMEV</title>
      <biblScope>3747</biblScope>
    </bibl>
  </msItem>
  <msItem n="3">
    <locus>fol. 8v</locus>
    <title>Truth</title>
    <bibl>
      <title>IMEV</title>
      <biblScope>809</biblScope>
    </bibl>
  </msItem>
  <msItem n="4">
    <locus>fols. 8v-10v</locus>
    <title>Birds Praise of Love</title>
    <bibl>
      <title>IMEV</title>
      <biblScope>1506</biblScope>
    </bibl>
  </msItem>
  <msItem n="5">
    <locus>fols. 10v-11v</locus>
    <title xml:lang="la">De amico ad amicam</title>
    <title xml:lang="la">Responcio</title>
    <bibl>
      <title>IMEV</title>
      <biblScope>16 &amp; 19</biblScope>
    </bibl>
  </msItem>
  <msItem n="6">
    <locus>fols. 14r-126v</locus>
    <title>Troilus and Criseyde</title>
    <note>Bk. 1:71-Bk. 5:1701, with additional losses due to mutilation throughout</note>
  </msItem>
</msContents>

Content model

<content>
    <alternate>
      
        <classRef key="model.pLike" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      
      <sequence>
        
          <elementRef key="summary" minOccurs="0"/>
        
        
          <elementRef key="textLang" minOccurs="0"/>
        
        
          <elementRef key="titlePage" minOccurs="0"/>
        
        
          <alternate minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
            <elementRef key="msItem"/>
            <elementRef key="msItemStruct"/>
          </alternate>
        
      </sequence>
    </alternate>
  </content>