P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange

<msDesc>
 <msIdentifier>
  <settlement>Oxford</settlement>
  <repository>Bodleian Library</repository>
  <idno>MS. Add. A. 61</idno>
  <altIdentifier type="SC">
   <idno>28843</idno>
  </altIdentifier>
 </msIdentifier>
 <msContents>
  <msItem>
   <author xml:lang="en">Geoffrey of Monmouth</author>
   <author xml:lang="la">Galfridus Monumetensis</author>
   <title type="uniform" xml:lang="la">De origine et
       gestis Regum Angliae</title>
   <rubric xml:lang="la">Hic incipit Bruitus Anglie</rubric>
   <incipit xml:lang="la">Cum mecum multa &amp; de multis</incipit>
   <textLang mainLang="la">Latin</textLang>
  </msItem>
 </msContents>
 <physDesc>
  <objectDesc form="codex">
   <supportDesc material="perg">
    <support>
     <p>Parchment.</p>
    </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">
     <p>In double columns.</p>
    </layout>
   </layoutDesc>
  </objectDesc>
  <handDesc>
   <p>Written in more than one hand.</p>
  </handDesc>
  <decoDesc>
   <p>With a few coloured capitals.</p>
  </decoDesc>
 </physDesc>
 <history>
  <origin>
   <p>Written in <origPlace>England</origPlace> in the <origDate notAfter="1300"
     notBefore="1200">13th cent.</origDate>
   </p>
  </origin>
  <provenance>
   <p>On fol. 54v very faint is
   <quote xml:lang="la">Iste liber est fratris guillelmi de buria de <gap/>
         Roberti ordinis fratrum
         Pred<ex>icatorum</ex>
    </quote>, 14th cent. (?):
   <quote>hanauilla</quote> is written at the foot of the page
       (15th cent.).</p>
  </provenance>
  <acquisition>
   <p>Bought from the rev. <name key="MCRAYWD">W. D. Macray</name> on
   <date when="1863-03-17">March 17, 1863</date>, for £1 10s.</p>
  </acquisition>
 </history>
</msDesc>

<decoDesc>
 <p>Several of the miniatures in this section have been damaged and
   overpainted at a later date (e.g. the figure of Christ on <locus facs="http://www.example.com/images.fr#F33R">fol. 33r</locus>; the
   face of the Shepherdess on <locus facs="http://www.example.com/images.fr#F59V">fol. 59v</locus>,
   etc.).</p>
</decoDesc>

<decoDesc>
 <p>The decoration comprises two full page miniatures, perhaps added
   by the original owner, or slightly later; the original major decoration
   consists of twenty-three large miniatures, illustrating the divisions of
   the Passion narrative and the start of the major texts, and the major
   divisions of the Hours; seventeen smaller miniatures, illustrating the
   suffrages to saints; and seven historiated initials, illustrating
   the pericopes and major prayers.</p>
</decoDesc>

<decoDesc>
 <decoNote type="miniature">
  <p>One full-page miniature, facing the beginning of the first
     Penitential Psalm.</p>
 </decoNote>
 <decoNote type="initial">
  <p>One seven-line historiated initial, commencing the first
     Penitential Psalm.</p>
 </decoNote>
 <decoNote type="initial">
  <p>Six four-line decorated initials, commencing the second through the
     seventh Penitential Psalm.</p>
 </decoNote>
 <decoNote type="initial">
  <p>Some three hundred two-line versal initials with pen-flourishes,
     commencing the psalm verses.</p>
 </decoNote>
 <decoNote type="border">
  <p>Four-sided border decoration surrounding the miniatures and three-sided
     border decoration accompanying the historiated and decorated initials.</p>
 </decoNote>
</decoDesc>

<decoDesc>
 <decoNote type="miniatures">
  <p>Fourteen large miniatures with arched tops, above five lines of text:
  <list>
    <item>
     <locus>fol. 14r</locus>Pericopes. <term>St. John writing on
           Patmos</term>, with the Eagle holding his ink-pot and pen-case; some
         flaking of pigment, especially in the sky</item>
    <item>
     <locus>fol. 26r</locus>Hours of the Virgin, Matins.
    <term>Annunciation</term>; Gabriel and the Dove to the right</item>
    <item>
     <locus>fol. 60r</locus>Prime. <term>Nativity</term>; the
    <term>Virgin and Joseph adoring the Child</term>
    </item>
    <item>
     <locus>fol. 66r</locus>Terce. <term>Annunciation to the
           Shepherds</term>, one with <term>bagpipes</term>
    </item>
<!-- ... -->
   </list>
  </p>
 </decoNote>
</decoDesc>

<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>

<decoDesc>
 <p>The start of each book of the Bible with a 10-line historiated
   illuminated initial; prefaces decorated with 6-line blue initials with red
   penwork flourishing; chapters marked by 3-line plain red initials; verses
   with 1-line initials, alternately blue or red.</p>
</decoDesc>

<decoDesc>
 <p>Les miracles de la Vierge, par Gautier de Coinci ; un volume in-fol. de 285 feuilles,
   orné d'initiales en or et en couleur,...</p>
</decoDesc>

<decoDesc>
 <p>每本聖經的第一個字母都是十行大小，飾以歷史圖案；引言部份的第一個字母是六行大小，並以紅筆花飾；章節的第一個字母是三行大小，紅的；韻文的第一個字母一行大小，有時是紅色有時是藍色的。</p>
</decoDesc>

<decoDesc>
 <decoNote type="initial">
  <p>The start of each book of the Bible with
     a 10-line historiated illuminated initial;
     prefaces decorated with 6-line blue initials
     with red penwork flourishing; chapters marked by
     3-line plain red initials; verses with 1-line initials,
     alternately blue or red.</p>
 </decoNote>
</decoDesc>

<decoDesc>
 <decoNote type="initial">
  <p>每本聖經的第一個字母都是十行大小，飾以歷史圖案；引言部份的第一個字母是六行大小，並以紅筆花飾；章節的第一個字母是三行大小，紅的；韻文的第一個字母一行大小，有時是紅色有時是藍色的。</p>
 </decoNote>
</decoDesc>