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<physDesc>

physical description

contains a full physical description of a manuscript, manuscript part, or other object optionally subdivided using more specialized elements from the model.physDescPart class.

Module msdescriptionmsph

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

Classes and content

May contain

core

linking

msdescription

Contained by

msdescription

namesdates

Example

<physDesc>
  <objectDesc form="codex">
    <supportDesc material="perg">
      <support>Parchment.</support>
      <extent>i + 55 leaves
        <dimensions scope="all" type="leaf" unit="inch">
          <height>7¼</height>
          <width>5⅜</width>
        </dimensions>
      </extent>
    </supportDesc>
    <layoutDesc>
      <layout columns="2">In double columns.</layout>
    </layoutDesc>
  </objectDesc>
  <handDesc>
    <p>Written in more than one hand.</p>
  </handDesc>
  <decoDesc>
    <p>With a few coloured capitals.</p>
  </decoDesc>
</physDesc>

Content model

<content>
    <sequence>
      
        <classRef key="model.pLike" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
      
      
        
        <classRef key="model.physDescPart" expand="sequenceOptional"/>
      
    </sequence>
  </content>