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<msDesc>

manuscript description

contains a description of a single identifiable manuscript or other text-bearing object such as an early printed book.

Module msdescriptionmsov

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.declaring @decls
att.docStatus @status
att.sortable @sortKey
att.typed @type@subtype

Classes and content

Member of
model.biblLike
May contain

core

linking

msdescription

Contained by

cmc

core

dictionaries

drama

figures

header

iso-fs

linking

msdescription

namesdates

spoken

textcrit

textstructure

transcr

verse

Note

Although the msDesc has primarily been designed with a view to encoding manuscript descriptions, it may also be used for other objects such as early printed books, fascicles, epigraphs, or any text-bearing objects that require substantial description. If an object is not text-bearing or the reasons for describing the object is not primarily the textual content, the more general object may be more suitable.

Example

<msDesc>
  <msIdentifier>
    <settlement>Oxford</settlement>
    <repository>Bodleian Library</repository>
    <idno type="Bod">MS Poet. Rawl. D. 169.</idno>
  </msIdentifier>
  <msContents>
    <msItem>
      <author>Geoffrey Chaucer</author>
      <title>The Canterbury Tales</title>
    </msItem>
  </msContents>
  <physDesc>
    <objectDesc>
      <p>A parchment codex of 136 folios, measuring approx
28 by 19 inches, and containing 24 quires.</p>
      <p>The pages are margined and ruled throughout.</p>
      <p>Four hands have been identified in the manuscript: the first 44
folios being written in two cursive anglicana scripts, while the
remainder is for the most part in a mixed secretary hand.</p>
    </objectDesc>
  </physDesc>
</msDesc>

Schematron

<constraintSpec xmlns:sch="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/schematron" scheme="schematron" ident="one_ms_singleton_max" xml:lang="en">
    <constraint>
      <sch:rule context="tei:msContents|tei:physDesc|tei:history|tei:additional">
        
        
        <sch:let name="gi" value="name(.)"/>
        <sch:report test="preceding-sibling::*[ name(.) eq $gi ]                           and                           not( following-sibling::*[ name(.) eq $gi ] )">
          Only one &lt;<sch:name/>&gt; is allowed as a child of &lt;<sch:value-of select="name(..)"/>&gt;.
        </sch:report>
      </sch:rule>
    </constraint>
  </constraintSpec>

Content model

<content>
    <sequence>
      <elementRef key="msIdentifier"/>
      <classRef key="model.headLike" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      
      <alternate>
        <classRef key="model.pLike" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
        <alternate minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
          <elementRef key="msContents"/>
          <elementRef key="physDesc"/>
          <elementRef key="history"/>
          <elementRef key="additional"/>
          <elementRef key="msPart"/>
          <elementRef key="msFrag"/>
        </alternate>
      </alternate>
    </sequence>
  </content>