<msContents>

<msContents> (manuscript contents) describes the intellectual content of a manuscript, manuscript part, or other object either as a series of paragraphs or as a series of structured manuscript items. [10.6. Intellectual Content]
Module msdescription
Attributes Attributes att.global (xml:id, n, xml:lang) (lim.att.global.fragmentable (part)) (att.global.rendition (rendition)) (att.global.source (source)) att.msExcerpt (defective) att.msClass (class)
Contained by
msdescription: msDesc msPart
May contain
core: p
linking: ab
msdescription: msItem summary
textstructure: titlePage
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.
Examples

<msContents class="#sermons">
   <p>A collection of Lollard sermons</p>
</msContents>

<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="frm">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 & 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>
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<elementSpec module="msdescription" xml:id="MSCONTENTS" ident="msContents">
   <gloss>manuscript contents</gloss>
   <desc xml:id="mscontents.desc">describes the intellectual content of a manuscript, manuscript
part, or other object either as a series of paragraphs or as a series of structured manuscript items.</desc>
   <classes>
      <memberOf key="att.global"/>
      <memberOf key="att.msExcerpt"/>
      <memberOf key="att.msClass"/>
   </classes>
   <content>
      <alternate>
         <classRef key="model.pLike" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
         <sequence>
            <elementRef key="summary" minOccurs="0"/>
            <elementRef key="textLang" minOccurs="0"/>
            <elementRef key="titlePage" minOccurs="0"/>
            <alternate minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
               <elementRef key="msItem"/>
               <elementRef key="msItemStruct"/>
            </alternate>
         </sequence>
      </alternate>
   </content>
</elementSpec>