<msContents>

<msContents> (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. 10.6 Intellectual Content
Modulemsdescription — 10 Manuscript Description
Attributes att.msExcerpt (@defective)
classidentifies the text types or classifications applicable to this object.
Status Optional
Datatype 

<rng:ref name="data.code"/>
data.code
Values One or more codes, each of which is used as the identifier for a text classification element supplied in the TEI Header textClass element.
Used by
msDesc msPart
May contain
core: p
linking: ab
msdescription: msItem msItemStruct summary textLang
textstructure: titlePage
Declaration

<rng:element name="msContents">
<rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
<rng:ref name="att.msExcerpt.attributes"/>
<rng:optional>
 <rng:attribute name="class">
  <rng:ref name="data.code"/>
 </rng:attribute>
</rng:optional>
<rng:choice>
 <rng:oneOrMore>
  <rng:ref name="model.pLike"/>
 </rng:oneOrMore>
 <rng:group>
  <rng:optional>
   <rng:ref name="summary"/>
  </rng:optional>
  <rng:optional>
   <rng:ref name="textLang"/>
  </rng:optional>
  <rng:optional>
   <rng:ref name="titlePage"/>
  </rng:optional>
  <rng:zeroOrMore>
   <rng:choice>
    <rng:ref name="msItem"/>
    <rng:ref name="msItemStruct"/>
   </rng:choice>
  </rng:zeroOrMore>
 </rng:group>
</rng:choice>
</rng:element>
element msContents
{
   att.global.attributes,
   att.msExcerpt.attributes,
   attribute class { data.code }?,
   (
      model.pLike+
    | ( summary?, textLang?, titlePage?, ( msItem | msItemStruct )* )
   )
}
Example
<msContents>
 <p>A collection of Lollard sermons</p>
</msContents>
Example
<msContents>
 <msItem n="1">
  <locus>fols. 5r-7v</locus>
  <title>An ABC</title>
  <bibl>
   <title>IMEV</title>
   <biblScope>239</biblScope>
  </bibl>
 </msItem>
 <msItem n="2">
  <locus>fols. 7v-8v</locus>
  <title xml:lang="FR">Lenvoy de Chaucer a Scogan</title>
  <bibl>
   <title>IMEV</title>
   <biblScope>3747</biblScope>
  </bibl>
 </msItem>
 <msItem n="3">
  <locus>fol. 8v</locus>
  <title>Truth</title>
  <bibl>
   <title>IMEV</title>
   <biblScope>809</biblScope>
  </bibl>
 </msItem>
 <msItem n="4">
  <locus>fols. 8v-10v</locus>
  <title>Birds Praise of Love</title>
  <bibl>
   <title>IMEV</title>
   <biblScope>1506</biblScope>
  </bibl>
 </msItem>
 <msItem n="5">
  <locus>fols. 10v-11v</locus>
  <title xml:lang="LA">De amico ad amicam</title>
  <title xml:lang="LA">Responcio</title>
  <bibl>
   <title>IMEV</title>
   <biblScope>16 &amp; 19</biblScope>
  </bibl>
 </msItem>
 <msItem n="6">
  <locus>fols. 14r-126v</locus>
  <title>Troilus and Criseyde</title>
  <note>Bk. 1:71-Bk. 5:1701, with additional losses due to
     mutilation throughout</note>
 </msItem>
</msContents>
Note
Unless it contains a simple prose description, this element should contain at least one of the elements summary, msItem, or <msItemStruct.>. This constraint is not currently enforced by the schema.