indicates the person, or group of people, to whom the element content is ascribed. provides an externally-defined means of identifying the entity (or entities) being named, using a coded value of some kind. (reference) provides an explicit means of locating a full definition for the entity being named by means of one or more URIs. gives a minimum estimated value for the approximate measurement. gives a maximum estimated value for the approximate measurement. where the measurement summarizes more than one observation or a range, supplies the minimum value observed. where the measurement summarizes more than one observation or a range, supplies the maximum value observed. names the unit used for the measurement specifies the length in the units specified indicates the size of the object concerned using a project-specific vocabulary combining quantity and units in a single string of words. where the measurement summarizes more than one observation, specifies the applicability of this measurement. Sample values include: 1] all; 2] most; 3] range In the case of damage (deliberate defacement, inking out, etc.) assignable to a distinct hand, signifies the hand responsible for the damage. categorizes the cause of the damage, if it can be identified. Sample values include: 1] rubbing; 2] mildew; 3] smoke Signifies the degree of damage according to a convenient scale. The damage tag with the degree attribute should only be used where the text may be read with some confidence; text supplied from other sources should be tagged as supplied. assigns an arbitrary number to each stretch of damage regarded as forming part of the same physical phenomenon. supplies a pointer to some location defining a named period of time within which the datable item is understood to have occurred. supplies the value of the date or time in a standard form, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd. specifies the earliest possible date for the event in standard form, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd. specifies the latest possible date for the event in standard form, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd. indicates the starting point of the period in standard form, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd. indicates the ending point of the period in standard form, e.g. yyyy-mm-dd. indicates whether or not this element is selected by default when its parent is selected. This element is selected if its parent is selected This element can only be selected explicitly, unless it is the only one of its kind, in which case it is selected if its parent is selected. identifies one or more declarable elements within the header, which are understood to apply to the element bearing this attribute and its content. (organization) specifies how the content of the division is organized. composite content: i.e. no claim is made about the sequence in which the immediate contents of this division are to be processed, or their inter-relationships. uniform content: i.e. the immediate contents of this element are regarded as forming a logical unit, to be processed in sequence. indicates whether this division is a sample of the original source and if so, from which part. division lacks material present at end in source. division lacks material at start and end. division lacks material at start. position of sampled material within original unknown. division is not a sample. specifies whether or not the division is fragmented by some other structural element, for example a speech which is divided between two or more verse stanzas. (yes) the division is incomplete in some respect (no) either the division is complete, or no claim is made as to its completeness. (initial) the initial part of an incomplete division (medial) a medial part of an incomplete division (final) the final part of an incomplete division (certainty) signifies the degree of certainty associated with the intervention or interpretation. (responsible party) indicates the agency responsible for the intervention or interpretation, for example an editor or transcriber. indicates the nature of the evidence supporting the reliability or accuracy of the intervention or interpretation. Suggested values include: 1] internal; 2] external; 3] conjecture there is internal evidence to support the intervention. there is external evidence to support the intervention. the intervention or interpretation has been made by the editor, cataloguer, or scholar on the basis of their expertise. contains a list of one or more pointers indicating the sources which support the given reading. (number) gives a number (or other label) for an element, which is not necessarily unique within the document. (rendition) indicates how the element in question was rendered or presented in the source text. gives a standard name or other identifier for the scribe believed to be responsible for this hand. characterizes the particular script or writing style used by this hand, for example secretary, copperplate, Chancery, Italian, etc. describes the tint or type of ink, e.g. brown, or other writing medium, e.g. pencil specifies how widely this hand is used in the manuscript. only this hand is used throughout the manuscript this hand is used through most of the manuscript this hand is used occasionally in the manuscript (MIME media type) specifies the applicable multimedia internet mail extension (MIME) media type (reference to the canonical name) provides a means of locating the canonical form (nym) of the names associated with the object named by the element bearing it. Suggested values include: 1] below; 2] bottom; 3] margin; 4] top; 5] opposite; 6] overleaf; 7] above; 8] end; 9] inline; 10] inspace below the line at the foot of the page in the margin (left, right, or both) at the top of the page on the opposite, i.e. facing, page on the other side of the leaf above the line at the end of e.g. chapter or volume. within the body of the text. in a predefined space, for example left by an earlier scribe. characterizes the function of the segment. specifies whether or not the segment is fragmented by some other structural element, for example a clause which is divided between two or more sentences. (yes) the segment is incomplete in some respect (no) either the segment is complete, or no claim is made as to its completeness (initial) the initial part of an incomplete segment (medial) a medial part of an incomplete segment (final) the final part of an incomplete segment (edition) supplies an arbitrary identifier for the source edition in which the associated feature (for example, a page, column, or line break) occurs at this point in the text. indicates the end of a span initiated by the element bearing this attribute. signifies the hand of the agent which made the intervention. indicates the effect of the intervention, for example in the case of a deletion, strikeouts which include too much or too little text, or in the case of an addition, an insertion which duplicates some of the text already present. Sample values include: 1] duplicate; 2] duplicate-partial; 3] excessStart; 4] excessEnd; 5] shortStart; 6] shortEnd; 7] partial; 8] unremarkable (sequence) assigns a sequence number related to the order in which the encoded features carrying this attribute are believed to have occurred. specifies the version name or number of the source from which the translated version was derived characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology. provides a sub-categorization of the element, if needed indicates whether the name component is given in full, as an abbreviation or simply as an initial. the name component is spelled out in full. (abbreviated) the name component is given in an abbreviated form. (initial letter) the name component is indicated only by one initial. specifies the sort order of the name component in relation to others within the personal name. (paragraph) marks paragraphs in prose. (foreign) identifies a word or phrase as belonging to some language other than that of the surrounding text. (highlighted) marks a word or phrase as graphically distinct from the surrounding text, for reasons concerning which no claim is made. (rendition) indicates how the element in question was rendered or presented in the source text. (quotation) contains a phrase or passage attributed by the narrator or author to some agency external to the text. (separated from the surrounding text with quotation marks) contains material which is marked as (ostensibly) being somehow different than the surrounding text, for any one of a variety of reasons including, but not limited to: direct speech or thought, technical terms or jargon, authorial distance, quotations from elsewhere, and passages that are mentioned but not used. may be used to indicate whether the offset passage is spoken or thought, or to characterize it more finely. Suggested values include: 1] spoken; 2] thought; 3] written; 4] soCalled; 5] foreign(foreign words) ; 6] distinct(linguistically distinct) ; 7] term(technical term) ; 8] emph(rhetorically emphasized) ; 9] mentioned representation of speech representation of thought, e.g. internal monologue quotation from a written source authorial distance (foreign words) (linguistically distinct) (technical term) (rhetorically emphasized) refering to itself, not its normal referant (description) contains a brief description of the object documented by its parent element, including its intended usage, purpose, or application where this is appropriate. identifies a phrase or word used to provide a gloss or definition for some other word or phrase. identifies the associated term element by an absolute or relative URI reference (canonical reference) identifies the associated term element using a canonical reference from a scheme defined in a refsDecl element in the TEI header contains a single-word, multi-word, or symbolic designation which is regarded as a technical term. supplies the sort key for this term in an index. identifies the associated gloss element by an absolute or relative URI reference identifies the associated gloss element using a canonical reference from a scheme defined in a refsDecl element in the TEI header (latin for thus or so) contains text reproduced although apparently incorrect or inaccurate. (correction) contains the correct form of a passage apparently erroneous in the copy text. groups a number of alternative encodings for the same point in a text. (regularization) contains a reading which has been regularized or normalized in some sense. (original form) contains a reading which is marked as following the original, rather than being normalized or corrected. (gap) indicates a point where material has been omitted in a transcription, whether for editorial reasons described in the TEI header, as part of sampling practice, or because the material is illegible, invisible, or inaudible. gives the reason for omission of this material from the transcription. medium is damaged material cannot be reliably read material can be read but has been cancelled by scribe material is not regarded as relevant by the transcriber material omitted by transcriber material missing from the source in the case of text omitted from the transcription because of deliberate deletion by an identifiable hand, signifies the hand which made the deletion. In the case of text omitted because of damage, categorizes the cause of the damage, if it can be identified. Sample values include: 1] rubbing; 2] mildew; 3] smoke names the unit used for describing the extent of the gap written characters leaves lines millimetres pages words (addition) contains letters, words, or phrases inserted in the text by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector. (deletion) contains a letter, word, or passage deleted, marked as deleted, or otherwise indicated as superfluous or spurious in the copy text by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector. contains a word, phrase, or passage which cannot be transcribed with certainty because it is illegible or inaudible in the source. indicates why the material is hard to transcribe. Where the difficulty in transcription arises from action (partial deletion, etc.) assignable to an identifiable hand, signifies the hand responsible for the action. Where the difficulty in transcription arises from damage, categorizes the cause of the damage, if it can be identified. Sample values include: 1] rubbing; 2] mildew; 3] smoke (name, proper noun) contains a proper noun or noun phrase. characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology. contains a date in any format. indicates the system or calendar to which the date represented by the content of this element belongs. Suggested values include: 1] Gregorian; 2] Julian; 3] Islamic; 4] Hebrew; 5] Revolutionary; 6] Iranian; 7] Coptic; 8] Chinese Gregorian calendar Julian calendar Islamic or Muslim (hijri) lunar calendar Hebrew or Jewish lunisolar calendar French Revolutionary calendar Iranian or Persian (Jalaali) solar calendar Coptic or Alexandrian calendar Chinese lunisolar calendar (abbreviation) contains an abbreviation of any sort. allows the encoder to classify the abbreviation according to some convenient typology. Sample values include: 1] suspension; 2] contraction; 3] brevigraph; 4] superscription; 5] acronym; 6] title; 7] organization; 8] geographic (expansion) contains the expansion of an abbreviation. (pointer) defines a pointer to another location. specifies the destination of the pointer by supplying one or more URI References (canonical reference) specifies the destination of the pointer by supplying a canonical reference from a scheme defined in a refsDecl element in the TEI header (reference) defines a reference to another location, possibly modified by additional text or comment. specifies the destination of the reference by supplying one or more URI References (canonical reference) specifies the destination of the reference by supplying a canonical reference from a scheme defined in a refsDecl element in the TEI header (list) contains any sequence of items organized as a list. describes the form of the list. Suggested values include: 1] ordered; 2] bulleted; 3] simple; 4] gloss list items are numbered or lettered. list items are marked with a bullet or other typographic device. list items are not numbered or bulleted. each list item glosses some term or concept, which is given by a label element preceding the list item. contains one component of a list. contains the label associated with an item in a list; in glossaries, marks the term being defined. (heading) contains any type of heading, for example the title of a section, or the heading of a list, glossary, manuscript description, etc. contains a note or annotation. describes the type of note. (responsible party) indicates who is responsible for the annotation: author, editor, translator, etc. indicates whether the copy text shows the exact place of reference for the note. indicates the point (or points) of attachment for a note, or the beginning of the span to which the note is attached. points to the end of the span to which the note is attached, if the note is not embedded in the text at that point. (index entry) marks a location to be indexed for whatever purpose. supplies a name to specify which index (of several) the index entry belongs to. indicates the location of an inline graphic, illustration, or figure. The display width of the image The display height of the image A scale factor to be applied to the image to make it the desired display size (uniform resource locator) A URL which refers to the image itself. marks a boundary point separating any kind of section of a text, typically but not necessarily indicating a point at which some part of a standard reference system changes, where the change is not represented by a structural element. provides a conventional name for the kind of section changing at this milestone. Suggested values include: 1] page; 2] column; 3] line; 4] book; 5] poem; 6] canto; 7] speaker; 8] stanza; 9] act; 10] scene; 11] section; 12] absent; 13] unnumbered physical page breaks (synonymous with the pb element). column breaks. line breaks (synonymous with the lb element). any units termed book, liber, etc. individual poems in a collection. cantos or other major sections of a poem. changes of speaker or narrator. stanzas within a poem, book, or canto. acts within a play. scenes within a play or act. sections of any kind. passages not present in the reference edition. passages present in the text, but not to be included as part of the reference. (page break) marks the boundary between one page of a text and the next in a standard reference system. (line break) marks the start of a new (typographic) line in some edition or version of a text. (column break) marks the boundary between one column of a text and the next in a standard reference system. in a bibliographic reference, contains the name(s) of the author(s), personal or corporate, of a work; for example in the same form as that provided by a recognized bibliographic name authority. secondary statement of responsibility for a bibliographic item, for example the name of an individual, institution or organization, (or of several such) acting as editor, compiler, translator, etc. specifies the nature of the intellectual responsibility (statement of responsibility) supplies a statement of responsibility for the intellectual content of a text, edition, recording, or series, where the specialized elements for authors, editors, etc. do not suffice or do not apply. (responsibility) contains a phrase describing the nature of a person's intellectual responsibility. contains a title for any kind of work. indicates the bibliographic level for a title, that is, whether it identifies an article, book, journal, series, or unpublished material. (analytic) analytic title (article, poem, or other item published as part of a larger item) (monographic) monographic title (book, collection, or other item published as a distinct item, including single volumes of multi-volume works) (journal) journal title (series) series title (unpublished) title of unpublished material (including theses and dissertations unless published by a commercial press) classifies the title according to some convenient typology. Sample values include: 1] main; 2] sub(subordinate) ; 3] alt(alternate) ; 4] short; 5] desc(descriptive) provides the name of the organization responsible for the publication or distribution of a bibliographic item. (scope of citation) defines the scope of a bibliographic reference, for example as a list of page numbers, or a named subdivision of a larger work. identifies the type of information conveyed by the element, e.g. columns, pages, volume. specifies the starting point of the range of units indicated by the type attribute. specifies the end-point of the range of units indicated by the type attribute. (publication place) contains the name of the place where a bibliographic item was published. (bibliographic citation) contains a loosely-structured bibliographic citation of which the sub-components may or may not be explicitly tagged. (citation list) contains a list of bibliographic citations of any kind. contains or references some other bibliographic item which is related to the present one in some specified manner, for example as a constituent or alternative version of it. (verse line) contains a single, possibly incomplete, line of verse. specifies whether or not the line is metrically complete. (yes) the line is metrically incomplete (no) either the line is complete, or no claim is made as to its completeness (initial) the initial part of an incomplete line (medial) a medial part of an incomplete line (final) the final part of an incomplete line (line group) contains a group of verse lines functioning as a formal unit, e.g. a stanza, refrain, verse paragraph, etc. (automatically generated text division) indicates the location at which a textual division generated automatically by a text-processing application is to appear. specifies what type of generated text division (e.g. index, table of contents, etc.) is to appear. Sample values include: 1] index; 2] toc; 3] figlist; 4] tablist (TEI Header) supplies the descriptive and declarative information making up an electronic title page prefixed to every TEI-conformant text. specifies the kind of document to which the header is attached, for example whether it is a corpus or individual text. Sample values include: 1] text; 2] corpus (file description) contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic file. (title statement) groups information about the title of a work and those responsible for its intellectual content. specifies the name of a sponsoring organization or institution. (funding body) specifies the name of an individual, institution, or organization responsible for the funding of a project or text. (principal researcher) supplies the name of the principal researcher responsible for the creation of an electronic text. (edition statement) groups information relating to one edition of a text. (edition) describes the particularities of one edition of a text. describes the approximate size of a text as stored on some carrier medium, whether digital or non-digital, specified in any convenient units. (publication statement) groups information concerning the publication or distribution of an electronic or other text. supplies the name of a person or other agency responsible for the distribution of a text. (release authority) supplies the name of a person or other agency responsible for making an electronic file available, other than a publisher or distributor. (identifying number) supplies any number or other identifier used to identify a bibliographic item in a standardized way. categorizes the number, for example as an ISBN or other standard series. supplies information about the availability of a text, for example any restrictions on its use or distribution, its copyright status, etc. supplies a code identifying the current availability of the text. (series statement) groups information about the series, if any, to which a publication belongs. (notes statement) collects together any notes providing information about a text additional to that recorded in other parts of the bibliographic description. (source description) describes the source from which an electronic text was derived or generated, typically a bibliographic description in the case of a digitized text, or a phrase such as "born digital" for a text which has no previous existence. (encoding description) documents the relationship between an electronic text and the source or sources from which it was derived. (project description) describes in detail the aim or purpose for which an electronic file was encoded, together with any other relevant information concerning the process by which it was assembled or collected. (editorial practice declaration) provides details of editorial principles and practices applied during the encoding of a text. (classification declarations) contains one or more taxonomies defining any classificatory codes used elsewhere in the text. defines a typology used to classify texts either implicitly, by means of a bibliographic citation, or explicitly by a structured taxonomy. contains an individual descriptive category, possibly nested within a superordinate category, within a user-defined taxonomy. (category description) describes some category within a taxonomy or text typology, either in the form of a brief prose description or in terms of the situational parameters used by the TEI formal textDesc. (text-profile description) provides a detailed description of non-bibliographic aspects of a text, specifically the languages and sublanguages used, the situation in which it was produced, the participants and their setting. (note on hand) describes a particular style or hand distinguished within a manuscript. characterizes the particular script or writing style used by this hand, for example secretary, copperplate, Chancery, Italian, etc. script other than one of these script information not available specifies how widely this hand is used in the manuscript. contains information about the creation of a text. (language usage) describes the languages, sublanguages, registers, dialects, etc. represented within a text. characterizes a single language or sublanguage used within a text. (identifier) Supplies a language code constructed as defined in BCP 47 which is used to identify the language documented by this element, and which is referenced by the global xml:lang attribute. specifies the approximate percentage (by volume) of the text which uses this language. (text classification) groups information which describes the nature or topic of a text in terms of a standard classification scheme, thesaurus, etc. contains a list of keywords or phrases identifying the topic or nature of a text. identifies the controlled vocabulary within which the set of keywords concerned is defined. (classification code) contains the classification code used for this text in some standard classification system. identifies the classification system or taxonomy in use. (category reference) specifies one or more defined categories within some taxonomy or text typology. identifies the categories concerned identifies the classification scheme within which the set of categories concerned is defined (revision description) summarizes the revision history for a file. summarizes a particular change or correction made to a particular version of an electronic text which is shared between several researchers. supplies the date of the change in standard form, i.e. YYYY-MM-DD. describes a particular font or other significant typographic feature distinguished within the description of a printed resource. (geographic coordinates declaration) documents the notation and the datum used for geographic coordinates expressed as content of the geo element elsewhere within the document. supplies a commonly used code name for the datum employed. Suggested values include: 1] WGS84(World Geodetic System) ; 2] MGRS(Military Grid Reference System) ; 3] OSGB36(ordnance survey great britain) ; 4] ED50(European Datum coordinate system) (World Geodetic System) a pair of numbers to be interpreted as latitude followed by longitude according to the World Geodetic System. (Military Grid Reference System) the values supplied are geospatial entity object codes, based on (ordnance survey great britain) the value supplied is to be interpreted as a British National Grid Reference. (European Datum coordinate system) the value supplied is to be interpreted as latitude followed by longitude according to the European Datum coordinate system. (TEI document) contains a single TEI-conformant document, comprising a TEI header and a text, either in isolation or as part of a teiCorpus element. The version of the TEI scheme contains a single text of any kind, whether unitary or composite, for example a poem or drama, a collection of essays, a novel, a dictionary, or a corpus sample. (text body) contains the whole body of a single unitary text, excluding any front or back matter. contains the body of a composite text, grouping together a sequence of distinct texts (or groups of such texts) which are regarded as a unit for some purpose, for example the collected works of an author, a sequence of prose essays, etc. (text division) contains a subdivision of the front, body, or back of a text. (title page) contains the title page of a text, appearing within the front or back matter. classifies the title page according to any convenient typology. (document title) contains the title of a document, including all its constituents, as given on a title page. contains a subsection or division of the title of a work, as indicated on a title page. specifies the role of this subdivision of the title. Suggested values include: 1] main; 2] sub(subordinate) ; 3] alt(alternate) ; 4] short; 5] desc(descriptive) main title of the work (subordinate) subtitle of the work (alternate) alternative title of the work abbreviated form of title (descriptive) descriptive paraphrase of the work (document author) contains the name of the author of the document, as given on the title page (often but not always contained in a byline). (document edition) contains an edition statement as presented on a title page of a document. (document imprint) contains the imprint statement (place and date of publication, publisher name), as given (usually) at the foot of a title page. (front matter) contains any prefatory matter (headers, title page, prefaces, dedications, etc.) found at the start of a document, before the main body. (back matter) contains any appendixes, etc. following the main part of a text. (manuscript description) contains a description of a single identifiable manuscript or other text-bearing object. describes the system used to ensure correct ordering of the quires making up a codex or incunable, typically by means of annotations at the foot of the page. contains a dimensional specification. indicates which aspect of the object is being measured. contains any single measurement forming part of a dimensional specification of some sort. contains a measurement measured along the axis at right angles to the bottom of the written surface, i.e. parallel to the spine for a codex or book. contains a measurement measured across the spine of a book or codex, or (for other text-bearing objects) perpendicular to the measurement given by the width element. contains a measurement measured along the axis parallel to the bottom of the written surface, i.e. perpendicular to the spine of a book or codex. contains a heraldic formula or phrase, typically found as part of a blazon, coat of arms, etc. defines a location within a manuscript or manuscript part, usually as a (possibly discontinuous) sequence of folio references. identifies the foliation scheme in terms of which the location is being specified. specifies the starting point of the location in a normalized form. specifies the end-point of the location in a normalized form. supplies a link to one or more transcriptions of the specified range of folios. groups a number of locations which together form a distinct but discontinuous item within a manuscript or manuscript part, according to a specific foliation. identifies the foliation scheme in terms of which all the locations contained by the group are specified. contains a word or phrase describing the material of which a manuscript (or part of a manuscript) is composed. (origin date) contains any form of date, used to identify the date of origin for a manuscript or manuscript part. (origin place) contains any form of place name, used to identify the place of origin for a manuscript or manuscript part. (second folio) The word or words taken from a fixed point in a codex (typically the beginning of the second leaf) in order to provide a unique identifier for it. contains discussion of the leaf or quire signatures found within a codex. contains a word or phrase describing a stamp or similar device. contains a word or phrase describing a watermark or similar device. (manuscript identifier) contains the information required to identify the manuscript being described. contains the name of an organization such as a university or library, with which a manuscript is identified, generally its holding institution. contains the name of a repository within which manuscripts are stored, possibly forming part of an institution. contains the name of a collection of manuscripts, not necessarily located within a single repository. (alternative identifier) contains an alternative or former structured identifier used for a manuscript, such as a former catalogue number. characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology. former catalogue or shelf number former system identifier (Manuscriptorium specific) identifier of a previously distinct item internal project identifier unspecified (alternative name) contains any form of unstructured alternative name used for a manuscript, such as an ocellus nominum, or nickname. contains the colophon of a manuscript item: that is, a statement providing information regarding the date, place, agency, or reason for production of the manuscript. contains the explicit of a manuscript item, that is, the closing words of the text proper, exclusive of any rubric or colophon which might follow it. contains information concerning the manuscript's filiation, i.e. its relationship to other surviving manuscripts of the same text, its protographs, antigraphs and apographs. contains the string of words that denotes the end of a text division, often with an assertion as to its author and title, usually set off from the text itself by red ink, by a different size or type of script, or by some other such visual device. contains the incipit of a manuscript item, that is the opening words of the text proper, exclusive of any rubric which might precede it, of sufficient length to identify the work uniquely; such incipts were, in fomer times, frequently used a means of reference to a work, in place of a title. (manuscript contents) describes the intellectual content of a manuscript or manuscript part, either as a series of paragraphs or as a series of structured manuscript items. identifies the text types or classifications applicable to this object. (manuscript item) describes an individual work or item within the intellectual content of a manuscript or manuscript part. identifies the text types or classifications applicable to this item contains the text of any rubric or heading attached to a particular manuscript item, that is, a string of words through which a manuscript signals the beginning of a text division, often with an assertion as to its author and title, which is in some way set off from the text itself, usually in red ink, or by use of different size or type of script, or some other such visual device. contains a brief summary of the intellectual content of an item, provided by the cataloguer. (text language) describes the languages and writing systems used by a manuscript (as opposed to its description, which is described in the langUsage element). (main language) supplies a code which identifies the chief language used in the manuscript. (other languages) one or more codes identifying any other languages used in the manuscript. indicates whether the passage being quoted is defective, i.e. incomplete through loss or damage. (physical description) contains a full physical description of a manuscript or manuscript part, optionally subdivided using more specialised elements from the model.physDescPart class. contains a description of the physical components making up the object which is being described. a short project-specific name identifying the physical form of the carrier, for example as a codex, roll, fragment, partial leaf, cutting etc. a bound codex a loose leaf a scroll any other format (support description) groups elements describing the physical support for the written part of a manuscript. a short project-defined name for the material composing the majority of the support parchment paper mixture of paper and parchment, or other materials contains a description of the materials etc. which make up the physical support for the written part of a manuscript. contains a description of how the leaves or bifolia are physically arranged. describes the numbering system or systems used to count the leaves or pages in a codex. contains a description of the physical condition of the manuscript. (layout description) collects the set of layout descriptions applicable to a manuscript. describes how text is laid out on the page, including information about any ruling, pricking, or other evidence of page-preparation techniques. specifies the number of columns per page specifies the number of ruled lines per column specifies the number of written lines per colum (description of hands) contains a description of all the different kinds of writing used in a manuscript. specifies the number of distinct hands identified within the manuscript contains a description of the typefaces or other aspects of the printing of an incunable or other printed source. contains description of type of musical notation. (decoration description) contains a description of the decoration of a manuscript, either as a sequence of paragraphs, or as a sequence of topically organised decoNote elements. (note on decoration) contains a note describing either a decorative component of a manuscript, or a fairly homogenous class of such components. characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology. contains a description of any significant additions found within a manuscript, such as marginalia or other annotations. (binding description) describes the present and former bindings of a manuscript, either as a series of paragraphs or as a series of distinct binding elements, one for each binding of the manuscript. contains a description of one binding, i.e. type of covering, boards, etc. applied to a manuscript. specifies whether or not the binding is contemporary with the majority of its contents (seal description) describes the seals or other external items attached to a manuscript, either as a series of paragraphs or as a series of distinct seal elements, possibly with additional decoNotes. contains a description of one seal or similar attachment applied to a manuscript. specifies whether or not the seal is contemporary with the item to which it is affixed (accompanying material) contains details of any significant additional material which may be closely associated with the manuscript being described, such as non-contemporaneous documents or fragments bound in with the manuscript at some earlier historical period. groups elements describing the full history of a manuscript or manuscript part. contains any descriptive or other information concerning the origin of a manuscript or manuscript part. contains any descriptive or other information concerning a single identifiable episode during the history of a manuscript or manuscript part, after its creation but before its acquisition. contains any descriptive or other information concerning the process by which a manuscript or manuscript part entered the holding institution. groups additional information, combining bibliographic information about a manuscript, or surrogate copies of it with curatorial or administrative information. (administrative information) contains information about the present custody and availability of the manuscript, and also about the record description itself. (recorded history) provides information about the source and revision status of the parent manuscript description itself. describes the original source for the information contained with a manuscript description. (custodial history) contains a description of a manuscript's custodial history, either as running prose or as a series of dated custodial events. (custodial event) describes a single event during the custodial history of a manuscript. characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology. contains information about any non-digital representations of the manuscript being described which may exist in the holding institution or elsewhere. (manuscript part) contains information about an originally distinct manuscript or part of a manuscript, now forming part of a composite manuscript. (anchor point) attaches an identifier to a point within a text, whether or not it corresponds with a textual element. (arbitrary segment) represents any segmentation of text below the chunk level. categorizes the pointer in some respect, using any convenient set of categories. specifies the intended meaning when the target of a pointer is itself a pointer. if the element pointed to is itself a pointer, then the target of that pointer will be taken, and so on, until an element is found which is not a pointer. if the element pointed to is itself a pointer, then its target (whether a pointer or not) is taken as the target of this pointer. no further evaluation of targets is carried out beyond that needed to find the element specified in the pointer's target. (organization name) contains an organizational name. (personal name) contains a proper noun or proper-noun phrase referring to a person, possibly including any or all of the person's forenames, surnames, honorifics, added names, etc. contains a family (inherited) name, as opposed to a given, baptismal, or nick name. contains a forename, given or baptismal name. (generational name component) contains a name component used to distinguish otherwise similar names on the basis of the relative ages or generations of the persons named. (name link) contains a connecting phrase or link used within a name but not regarded as part of it, such as van der or of. (additional name) contains an additional name component, such as a nickname, epithet, or alias, or any other descriptive phrase used within a personal name. contains a name component which indicates that the referent has a particular role or position in society, such as an official title or rank. contains an absolute or relative place name. (bloc) contains the name of a geo-political unit consisting of two or more nation states or countries. (country) contains the name of a geo-political unit, such as a nation, country, colony, or commonwealth, larger than or administratively superior to a region and smaller than a bloc. contains the name of an administrative unit such as a state, province, or county, larger than a settlement, but smaller than a country. characterizes the element in some sense, using any convenient classification scheme or typology. contains the name of any kind of subdivision of a settlement, such as a parish, ward, or other administrative or geographic unit. contains the name of a settlement such as a city, town, or village identified as a single geo-political or administrative unit. that part of a relative temporal or spatial expression which indicates the direction of the offset between the two place names, dates, or times involved in the expression. (geographical name) a name associated with some geographical feature such as Windrush Valley or Mount Sinai. provides more culture- linguistic- or application- specific information used to categorize this name component. (geographical feature name) contains a common noun identifying some geographical feature contained within a geographic name, such as valley, mount, etc. (affiliation) contains an informal description of a person's present or past affiliation with some organization, for example an employer or sponsor. (age) specifies the age of a person. supplies a numeric code representing the age or age group (birth) contains information about a person's birth, such as its date and place. (death) contains information about a person's death, such as its date and place. contains a description of the educational experience of a person. (event) contains data relating to any kind of significant event associated with a person, place, or organization. indicates the location of an event by pointing to a place element specifies the faith, religion, or belief set of a person. contains information about a person's period of activity. (geographical coordinates) contains any expression of a set of geographic coordinates, representing a point, line, or area on the surface of the earth in some notation. (language knowledge) summarizes the state of a person's linguistic knowledge, either as prose or by a list of langKnown elements. supplies one or more valid language tags for the languages specified (language known) summarizes the state of a person's linguistic competence, i.e., knowledge of a single language. supplies a valid language tag for the language concerned. a code indicating the person's level of knowledge for this language (list of organizations) contains a list of elements, each of which provides information about an identifiable organization. (list of events) contains a list of descriptions, each of which provides information about an identifiable event. (list of persons) contains a list of descriptions, each of which provides information about an identifiable person or a group of people, for example the participants in a language interaction, or the people referred to in a historical source. (list of places) contains a list of places, optionally followed by a list of relationships (other than containment) defined amongst them. defines the location of a place as a set of geographical coordinates, in terms of a other named geo-political entities, or as an address. contains an informal description of a person's present or past nationality or citizenship. contains an informal description of a person's trade, profession or occupation. identifies the classification system or taxonomy in use by supplying the identifier of a taxonomy element elsewhere in the header. identifies an occupation code defined within the classification system or taxonomy defined by the scheme attribute. (organization) provides information about an identifiable organization such as a business, a tribe, or any other grouping of people. specifies a primary role or classification for the organization. (relation group) provides information about relationships identified amongst people, places, and organizations, either informally as prose or as formally expressed relation links. provides information about an identifiable individual, for example a participant in a language interaction, or a person referred to in a historical source. specifies a primary role or classification for the person. specifies the sex of the person. specifies an age group for the person. (personal group) describes a group of individuals treated as a single person for analytic purposes. specifies the role of this group of participants in the interaction. specifies the sex of the participant group. specifies the age group of the participants. specifies the size or approximate size of the group. contains data about a geographic location contains information about the population of a place. (relationship) describes any kind of relationship or linkage amongst a specified group of participants. categorizes the relationship in some respect, e.g. as social, personal or other. Suggested values include: 1] social; 2] personal; 3] other relationship concerned with social roles relationship concerned with personal roles, e.g. kinship, marriage, etc. other kinds of relationship supplies a name for the kind of relationship of which this is an instance. identifies the passive participants in a non-mutual relationship. identifies the active participants in a non-mutual relationship, or all the participants in a mutual one. supplies a list of participants amongst all of whom the relationship holds equally. (residence) describes a person's present or past places of residence. specifies the sex of a person. (socio-economic status) contains an informal description of a person's perceived social or economic status. identifies the classification system or taxonomy in use. identifies a status code defined within the classification system or taxonomy defined by the source attribute. contains a description of some culturally-determined and in principle unchanging characteristic attributed to a person or place . contains a mathematical or other formula. supplies the name of a previously defined notation used for the content of the element. groups elements representing or containing graphic information such as an illustration or figure. (description of figure) contains a brief prose description of the appearance or content of a graphic figure, for use when documenting an image without displaying it. contains a representation of some written source in the form of a set of images rather than as transcribed or encoded text. (facsimile) points to all or part of an image which corresponds with the content of the element. defines a written surface in terms of a rectangular coordinate space, optionally grouping one or more graphic representations of that space, and rectangular zones of interest within it. points to an element which encodes the starting position of the text corresponding to the inscribed part of the surface. gives the x coordinate value for the upper left corner of a rectangular space. gives the y coordinate value for the upper left corner of a rectangular space. gives the x coordinate value for the lower right corner of a rectangular space. gives the y coordinate value for the lower right corner of a rectangular space. defines a rectangular area contained within a surface element. (added span of text) marks the beginning of a longer sequence of text added by an author, scribe, annotator or corrector (see also add). contains an area of damage to the text witness. (damaged span of text) marks the beginning of a longer sequence of text which is damaged in some way but still legible. (deleted span of text) marks the beginning of a longer sequence of text deleted, marked as deleted, or otherwise signaled as superfluous or spurious by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector. (editorial expansion) contains a sequence of letters added by an editor or transcriber when expanding an abbreviation. (forme work) contains a running head (e.g. a header, footer), catchword, or similar material appearing on the current page. classifies the material encoded according to some useful typology. Sample values include: 1] header; 2] footer; 3] pageNum(page number) ; 4] lineNum(line number) ; 5] sig(signature) ; 6] catch(catchword) contains one or more handNote elements documenting the different hands identified within the source texts. marks the beginning of a sequence of text written in a new hand, or the beginning of a scribal stint. identifies the new hand. signifies the editor or transcriber responsible for identifying the change of hand. (abbreviation marker) contains a sequence of letters or signs present in an abbreviation which are omitted or replaced in the expanded form of the abbreviation. indicates restoration of text to an earlier state by cancellation of an editorial or authorial marking or instruction. indicates the location of a significant space in the copy text. (dimension) indicates whether the space is horizontal or vertical. the space is horizontal. the space is vertical. (responsible party) indicates the individual responsible for identifying and measuring the space. (substitution) groups one or more deletions with one or more additions when the combination is to be regarded as a single intervention in the text. signifies text supplied by the transcriber or editor for any reason, typically because the original cannot be read because of physical damage or loss to the original. indicates why the text has had to be supplied. (character or glyph) represents a non-standard character or glyph. points to a description of the character or glyph intended. (character) provides descriptive information about a character. (character name) contains the name of a character, expressed following Unicode conventions. (character property) provides a name and value for some property of the parent character or glyph. (character declarations) provides information about nonstandard characters and glyphs. (character glyph) provides descriptive information about a character glyph. (character glyph name) contains the name of a glyph, expressed following Unicode conventions for character names. (locally-defined property name) contains a locally defined name for some property. (character mapping) contains one or more characters which are related to the parent character or glyph in some respect, as specified by the type attribute. (unicode property name) contains the name of a registered Unicode normative or informative property. specifies the version number of the Unicode Standard in which this property name is defined. (value) contains a single value for some property, attribute, or other analysis.