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physDesc
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Physical description of a witness's material support.
Equivalent Entity:
| Name | Type | Description | Equivalent Property | Controlled Vocabulary | ||
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| subject_of_description | foreign key | The document that is the subject of the physical description. | ||||
| material | vocabulary | Description of the material of which the object is composed. |
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| form | vocabulary | \"[T]he form of the object in its original state, before any mutilation, rebinding, etc.\" Consolidated TEI Schema objectDesc[@form]) |
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| Name | Type | Description | Equivalent Property | Controlled Vocabulary | ||
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| folio_size_width | text | The current width of the folio size in millimeters. If unknown, enter \"NA\" | ||||
| folio_size_height | text | The current height of the folio size in millimeters. If unknown, enter \"NA\" | ||||
| folio_size_reference | text | An in-line citation (or URL of a library finding aid) documenting where the measurements were described. If the measurements are unknown, enter \"NA\" |
| Name | Type | Description | Equivalent Property | Controlled Vocabulary | ||
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| estimated_folio_size_height | text | The height in millimeters (a range is permitted) of the folio size in the witness as it would have been before any mutilation, rebinding, etc. | ||||
| estimated_folio_size_width | text | The width in millimeters (a range is permitted) of the folio size in the witness as it would have been before any mutilation, rebinding, etc. | ||||
| estimated_folio_size_reference | text | An in-line citation (or URL of a library finding aid) documenting where the measurements were described. |
| Name | Type | Description | Equivalent Property | Controlled Vocabulary | ||
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| has_decorations | vocabulary | Decorations that are unrelated to the text. They include decorated letters (initials), rubrication, and pictures that do not illustrate scenes connected to the accompanying text. |
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| amount_of_illustrations | vocabulary | Decorations that are related to the text, which illustrate a scene in the story. Select the category that matches the number most specialists agree are present and completed. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Equivalent Property | Controlled Vocabulary | ||
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| writing_surface_area_height | text | Height in millimeters (a range is permitted) of the writing area. Equivalent to dimensions[@type=\"written\"]/height | ||||
| writing_surface_area_width | text | Width in millimeters (a range is permitted) of the writing area. Equivalent to dimensions[@type=\"written\"]/width | ||||
| writing_surface_area_reference | text | An in-line citation for the source of the information about the dimensions of the witness\'s writing area. | ||||
| number_of_columns | text | An estimation of the number of columns in the writing area, equivalent to the @columns attribute of layout in TEI. | ||||
| number_of_lines_in_writing_area | text | An estimation of the number of lines of text per page or per column, equivalent to the @writtenLines attribute of layout in TEI. | ||||
| above_top_line | vocabulary | The text starts above the top ruled line on the page. If no, then the text starts at the line below the top line. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Equivalent Property | Controlled Vocabulary | ||
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| script_type | vocabulary | Principal script type of the witness. |
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| subscript_type | vocabulary | More refined definition of the main script type. |
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