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

If this is the description of a  _copy_ of an older manuscript would it not be more logical to have two separate records - one for the original and one for the copy, each with their own date of origin plus appropriate pointers in the respective <filiation > elements? The copy record would point to the antigraph, the record for the original would point to the apograph. I thought that what filiation is for. Or am I misunderstanding the problem here?

Burkhard

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From: TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) public discussion list <[email protected]> on behalf of Franz Fischer <[email protected]>
Sent: 06 February 2017 11:46:58
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Subject: 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
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University of Zurich
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