Re: In manuscript copies, how to encode the date of origin of the original?

Dear Mathias,

How about this:

<history>
<origin>
<origDate>1589</origDate>
<date type="original">...</date>
</origin>
</history>

Best,
Franz

Am 06.02.2017 um 11:58 schrieb Mathias Müller:
> Dear all
>
> We are TEI-encoding medieval law manuscripts, making use of all the 
> elements of the "msdescription" module. I have a question about how to 
> encode dates related to those manuscripts.
>
> For original manuscripts, I have encoded the date as follows (showing 
> only the relevant part of the header):
>
>          <sourceDesc>
>             <msDesc>
>                <msIdentifier>
>                   <repository>Sample Holdings</repository>
>                   <idno>ex12345</idno>
>                </msIdentifier>
>                <history>
>                   <origin>
> <origDate>1589</origDate>
>                   </origin>
>                </history>
>             </msDesc>
>          </sourceDesc>
>
> But for manuscripts that are /copies/ of older manuscripts, we have 
> the following requirement: we need to encode both the date of origin 
> of the copy and the date of origin of the original that the copy 
> refers to. I am not sure how to encode both in the same header.
>
> Hence my question:
>
> While encoding a copy of an original manuscript, how to properly 
> represent both the date of creation of the copy and the original 
> manuscript? Both should be present in our TEI documents, but clearly 
> separated from each other.
>
> I am glad to give additional information if needed.
>
> Thanks in advance and kind regards
> Mathias
> —
>
> Mathias Müller
> AND-2-20
> Institute of Computational Linguistics
> University of Zurich
> Switzerland
> +41 44 635 75 81
> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>


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