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<msPart>

manuscript part

contains information about an originally distinct manuscript or part of a manuscript, which is now part of a composite manuscript.

Module msdescriptionmspt

Attributes

Classes and content

May contain

core

linking

Contained by

msdescription

Note

As this last example shows, for compatibility reasons the identifier of a manuscript part may be supplied as a simple altIdentifier rather than using the more structured msIdentifier element. This usage is however deprecated.

Examples

<msPart>
  <msIdentifier>
    <idno>A</idno>
    <altIdentifier type="catalog">
      <collection>Becker</collection>
      <idno>48, Nr. 145</idno>
    </altIdentifier>
    <altIdentifier type="catalog">
      <collection>Wiener Liste</collection>
      <idno>4°5</idno>
    </altIdentifier>
  </msIdentifier>
  <head>
    <title xml:lang="la">Gregorius: Homiliae in Ezechielem</title>
    <origPlace key="tgn_7008085">Weissenburg (?)</origPlace>
    <origDate notBefore="0801" notAfter="0815">IX. Jh., Anfang</origDate>
  </head>
</msPart>
<msDesc>
  <msIdentifier>
    <settlement>Amiens</settlement>
    <repository>Bibliothèque Municipale</repository>
    <idno>MS 3</idno>
    <msName>Maurdramnus Bible</msName>
  </msIdentifier>
  <msContents>
    <summary>
      <list>
        <item xml:lang="en">Miscellany of various texts;</item>
        <item xml:lang="la">Prudentius, Psychomachia;</item>
        <item xml:lang="la">Physiologus de natura animantium</item>
      </list>
    </summary>
    <textLang mainLang="la">Latin</textLang>
  </msContents>
  <physDesc>
    <objectDesc form="composite_manuscript"/>
  </physDesc>
  <msPart>
    <msIdentifier>
      <idno>ms. 10066-77 ff. 140r-156v</idno>
    </msIdentifier>
    <msContents>
      <summary xml:lang="la">Physiologus</summary>
      <textLang mainLang="la">Latin</textLang>
    </msContents>
  </msPart>
  <msPart>
    <msIdentifier>
      <altIdentifier>
        <idno>MS 6</idno>
      </altIdentifier>
    </msIdentifier>
    <!-- other information specific to this part here -->
  </msPart>
  <!-- more parts here -->
</msDesc>

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"/>
        </alternate>
      </alternate>
    </sequence>
  </content>