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| − | == ABOUT THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT CATALOGUES ONLINE PROJECT (OCIMCO) ==
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| − | The [http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/library/specialcollections/projects/ocimco OCIMCO] project aims to greatly improve scholarly access to the valuable Islamic texts held in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and Cambridge University Library. It is part of JISC's [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/islamdigi ''Digital Resources for Islamic Studies''] programme aimed at opening up access to a wide range of rare and important Arabic manuscripts and Islamic Studies resources.
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| − | Although much excellent work has been done in the UK to digitise medieval manuscripts like Psalters, books of hours and bestiaries, Middle Eastern manuscript culture has received less attention, yet UK organisations hold rich and valuable collections and there is great and increasing demand for access to them. The OCIMCO project is using TEI/XML<ref>[http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/P5/ TEI P5 Guidelines]</ref> to create some 10,000 basic manuscript descriptions that will be freely available and searchable online. These basic descriptions will also provide a framework for future enhancements and the inclusion of more details about individual manuscripts.
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| − | As the documentation for TEI manuscript description derives from Western manuscript examples, applying these descriptive standards to Islamic manuscripts in a union catalogue present a number of challenges, which are explored in the project documentation presented here.
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| − | == OCIMCO PROJECT DOCUMENTATION ==
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| − | The TEI's Manuscript Description module makes it possible to provide detailed descriptive information about handwritten primary sources. While the OCIMCO project has initially focussed on the retrospective conversion of existing descriptions and catalogues, it will eventually provide detailed manuscript descriptions that will include digital representations of the manuscripts themselves.
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| − | For the purpose of this documentation we have chosen a representative record which will be discussed in detail: '''MS. Marsh 80''', one of over 700 manuscripts belonging to Narcissus Marsh, Archbishop of Armagh and fellow of Exeter College, which the Bodleian received by bequest in 1714. Below is the complete TEI-conformant description of this manuscript:
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| − | <pre>
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| − | <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
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| − | <teiHeader xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
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| − | <fileDesc>
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| − | <titleStmt>
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| − | <title>MS. Marsh 80 - OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT CATALOGUES ONLINE</title>
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| − | <funder>JISC</funder>
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| − | <principal>Gillian Evison</principal>
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| − | </titleStmt>
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| − | <publicationStmt>
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| − | <date calendar="Gregorian">[Date when first made available]</date>
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| − | <publisher>Bodleian Library</publisher>
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| − | <pubPlace>
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| − | <address>
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| − | <addrLine>Department of Special Collections</addrLine>
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| − | <addrLine>Bodleian Library</addrLine>
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| − | <street>Broad Street</street>
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| − | <settlement>Oxford</settlement>
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| − | <postCode>OX1 3BG</postCode>
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| − | <addrLine><ref target="http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/collections">Bodleian Library
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| − | </ref></addrLine>
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| − | <addrLine><email>oriental@bodleian.ox.ac.uk</email></addrLine>
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| − | </address>
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| − | </pubPlace>
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| − | <idno>OCIMCO</idno>
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| − | </publicationStmt>
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| − | <sourceDesc>
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| − | <msDesc xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xml:id="OCIMCO" xml:lang="eng">
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| − | <msIdentifier>
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| − | <country>United Kingdom</country>
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| − | <region type="county">Oxfordshire</region>
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| − | <settlement>Oxford</settlement>
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| − | <institution>Oxford University</institution>
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| − | <repository>Bodleian Library</repository>
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| − | <collection type="main">Oriental Collection<collection type="sub">Marsh
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| − | Collection</collection></collection>
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| − | <idno>MS. Marsh 80</idno>
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| − | <altIdentifier type="other">
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| − | <idno>9076</idno>
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| − | </altIdentifier>
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| − | </msIdentifier>
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| − | <msContents>
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| − | <author>
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| − | <persName xml:lang="ara-Latn-x-lc" type="standard" key="n 80129268"
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| − | ref="http://viaf.org/viaf/90058060/">Qumrī, Abū Manṣūr
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| − | al-Ḥasan ibn Nūḥ, <date calendar="Gregorian" notBefore="1000"
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| − | notAfter="1100">11th cent.</date></persName>
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| − | <persName xml:lang="ara">
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| − | <surname>بن نوح</surname>
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| − | <forename>الحسن</forename>
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| − | <addName type="kunyah">أبو منصور</addName>
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| − | <addName type="nisbah">القمري</addName>
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| − | </persName>
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| − | </author>
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| − | <title xml:lang="ara-Latn-x-lc">Kitāb al-Ghiná wa-al-muná</title>
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| − | <title xml:lang="ara-Latn-x-lc" type="alt">al-Shamsīyah
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| − | al-Manṣūrīyah</title>
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| − | <title xml:lang="ara">كتاب الغنى والمنى</title>
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| − | <title xml:lang="ara" type="alt">الشمسية المنصورية</title>
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| − | <note>It is an incomplete copy. The text breaks off at the bottom of
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| − | folio 60b in the fifty-first bāb of the first maqālah. A complete
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| − | table of contents for the full treatise is given on folios 2a−3a.
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| − | Maqālah 1 starts on folio 3a.</note>
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| − | <incipit xml:lang="ara">بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم، الحمد لله رب العالمين
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| − | والعاقبة للمتقين...قال ابو منصور الحسن بن نوح القمري رحمه الله اني
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| − | لم ازل في صباي ومنذ عقلت احب العلوم الطبيعية وينازعني نفسي اليها
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| − | وخصوصا علم الطب</incipit>
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| − | <explicit xml:lang="ara" defective="true">فانه كثيرا ما ينقطع بذلك
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| − | والانكباب على بخار الشراب التي القيت فيه حجارة محماة فان لم ينقطع
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| − | فيجب ان يجذب المادة }}التي ينصب الى {{الحنك</explicit>
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| − | <note>At the bottom of the page, a different more cursive hand has
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| − | written: <foreign xml:lang="ara">والله الهادي الى الطريق تمت
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| − | الكتاب</foreign></note>
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| − | <listBibl>
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| − | <bibl>Golius Sale Cat., med. qu. 12</bibl>
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| − | <bibl>UAM 147 entry DCXLII (642)</bibl>
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| − | <bibl>NPAE, 590</bibl>
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| − | <bibl>GAL I 239</bibl>
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| − | <bibl>GAS III 319</bibl>
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| − | </listBibl>
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| − | <textLang mainLang="ara">Arabic</textLang>
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| − | </msItem>
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| − | </msContents>
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| − | <physDesc>
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| − | <objectDesc form="codex">
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| − | <supportDesc material="chart">
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| − | <extent>60 ff. <dimensions type="leaf" unit="cm">
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| − | <height>18.2</height>
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| − | <width>13.0</width>
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| − | </dimensions>
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| − | <dimensions type="written" unit="cm">
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| − | <height>13.2</height>
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| − | <width>7.8</width>
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| − | </dimensions>
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| − | </extent>
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| − | <condition>
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| − | <p>The paper is worm-eaten and slightly foxed. Folio 60 is
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| − | slightly water-damaged and has an unrepaired hole near the
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| − | centre.</p>
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| − | </condition>
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| − | </supportDesc>
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| − | <layoutDesc>
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| − | <layout columns="1" writtenLines="19">
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| − | <p>19 lines per page.</p>
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| − | </layout>
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| − | </layoutDesc>
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| − | </objectDesc>
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| − | <handDesc>
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| − | <handNote scope="major" script="naskh">
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| − | <p>Written in a medium-small compact <term>Naskh</term> script
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| − | tending towards <term>Nastaʿlīq</term>, in dense-black ink with
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| − | headings in red ink; some headings are now slightly tarnished,
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| − | and may have been either blue or silver at one time. There are
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| − | catchwords.</p>
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| − | </handNote>
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| − | </handDesc>
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| − | <additions>
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| − | <p>There are occasional marginalia in several hands, sometimes extensive
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| − | (e.g., folios 9b 16a, 33b, 54a), as well as some interlinear
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| − | annotations (e.g., 1b).</p>
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| − | </additions>
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| − | <bindingDesc>
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| − | <p>The volume is bound in pasteboard covers and an envelope flap. The
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| − | exterior covers and flap are simple tan paper, undecorated. The
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| − | spine is a dark-brown leather, and the fore-edge flap a more recent
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| − | light-tan soft leather. The plain pastedowns and envelope flap
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| − | lining are modern. There are no endpapers.</p>
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| − | </bindingDesc>
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| − | </physDesc>
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| − | <history>
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| − | <origin><date calendar="Gregorian" notBefore="1500" notAfter="1600"
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| − | type="approxDate">16th Century</date></origin>
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| − | <provenance>
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| − | <p>The volume is from the private collection of <name type="person"
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| − | >Jacob Golius</name>
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| − | <date calendar="Gregorian" when="1667">(d. 1667)</date> who acquired
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| − | manuscripts in the <date calendar="Gregorian" notBefore="1620"
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| − | notAfter="1630">1620s</date> (mostly in <name type="place"
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| − | >Syria</name>). The manuscript was purchased in <date
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| − | calendar="Gregorian" when="1696">1696</date> by <name
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| − | type="person">Narcissus Marsh</name>, Archbishop of Armagh</p>
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| − | </provenance>
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| − | <acquisition>
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| − | <p>Bequeathed to the <name type="org">Bodleian Library</name> by <name
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| − | type="person">Narcissus Marsh</name>, Archbishop of Armagh, upon
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| − | his death in <date calendar="Gregorian" when="1713">1713</date>.</p>
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| − | </acquisition>
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| − | </history>
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| − | <additional>
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| − | <adminInfo>
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| − | <recordHist>
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| − | <source>Manuscript description based on the Bodleian Library's
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| − | public card index of Arabic manuscripts with additional
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| − | enhancements by the OCIMCO project team.</source>
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| − | </recordHist>
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| − | <availability status="restricted">
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| − | <p>Entry to read in the Library is permitted only on presentation of
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| − | a valid reader's card (for admissions procedures contact <ref
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| − | target="http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/admissions/"
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| − | >Bodleian Admissions</ref>). Contact
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| − | <email>oriental@bodleian.ox.ac.uk</email> for further
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| − | information on the availability of this manuscript</p>
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| − | </availability>
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| − | <note/>
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| − | </adminInfo>
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| − | </additional>
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| − | </msDesc>
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| − | </sourceDesc>
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| − | </fileDesc>
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| − | <encodingDesc>
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| − | <classDecl>
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| − | <taxonomy xml:id="LCSH">
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| − | <bibl><ref target="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/about.html#lcsh">Library of
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| − | </taxonomy>
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| − | </classDecl>
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| − | </encodingDesc>
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| − | <profileDesc>
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| − | <textClass>
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| − | <keywords scheme="#LCSH">
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| − | <list>
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| − | <item><ref target="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85083116#concept"
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| − | >Medicine, Arabic</ref></item>
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| − | <item><ref target="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85134723#concept"
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| − | >Therapeutics</ref></item>
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| − | </list>
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| − | </keywords>
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| − | </textClass>
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| − | </profileDesc>
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| − | <revisionDesc>
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| − | <change when="2009-05-14">
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| − | <name type="person">Alasdair Watson</name> created this file on 14 May 2009.
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| − | </change>
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| − | </revisionDesc>
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| − | </teiHeader>
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| − | <facsimile>
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| − | <graphic url="folio1r.png"/>
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| − | <text>
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| − | </text>
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| − | </TEI>
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| − | === The TEI Header Elements ===
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| − | The header of a TEI document provides a mechanism for describing an encoded work so that the text itself, its source(s), its encoding, and its revisions are all thoroughly documented. The '''<teiHeader>''' element provided for this purpose has four principal components:
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| − | :; '''<fileDesc>''' (file description) : contains a full bibliographic description of an electronic file.
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| − | :; '''<encodingDesc>''' (encoding description) : documents the relationship between an electronic text and the source or sources from which it was derived.
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| − | :; '''<profileDesc>''' (text-profile description) : provides a detailed description of non-bibliographic aspects of a text, specifically the languages and sublanguages used, the situation in which it was produced, the participants and their setting.
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| − | :; '''<revisionDesc>''' (revision description) : summarizes the revision history for a record.
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| − | ==== The file description '''<fileDesc>''' ====
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| − | <title>MS. Marsh 80 - OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT CATALOGUES ONLINE</title>
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| − | <funder>JISC</funder>
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| − | <principal>Gillian Evison</principal>
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| − | </titleStmt>
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| − | <publicationStmt>
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| − | <date calendar="Gregorian">[Date when first made available]</date>
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| − | <publisher>Bodleian Library</publisher>
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| − | <pubPlace>
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| − | <address>
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| − | <addrLine>Department of Special Collections</addrLine>
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| − | <addrLine>Bodleian Library</addrLine>
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| − | <street>Broad Street</street>
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| − | <settlement>Oxford</settlement>
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| − | <postCode>OX1 3BG</postCode>
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| − | <addrLine><ref target="http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/libraries/collections">Bodleian Library
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| − | <addrLine><email>oriental@bodleian.ox.ac.uk</email></addrLine>
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| − | </address>
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| − | <idno>OCIMCO</idno>
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| − | The OCIMCO project makes use of the three mandatory elements in the '''<fileDesc>''' section to provide a bibliographic description of each machine-readable record. The '''<titleStmt>''' (title statement) groups information about the '''<title>''' of the record and those responsible for its intellectual content, namely the principal researcher/project manager '''<principal>''' Gillian Evison and the organization responsible for the funding of the project '''<funder>''', the JISC.
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| − | The '''<publicationStmt>''' (publication statement) is used to group information concerning the publication or distribution of the record. The Bodleian Libraries act as '''<publisher>''' of the manuscript records, and the statement includes both the '''<date>''' of publication and the publisher's physical, online, and e-mail addresses. The identifier '''<idno>''' by which the project is known, OCIMCO, is also provided as part of the publication statement.
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| − | ==== The encoding description '''<encodingDesc>''' ====
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| − | <encodingDesc>
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| − | <classDecl>
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| − | <taxonomy xml:id="LCSH">
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| − | <bibl><ref target="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/about.html#lcsh">Library of
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| − | </taxonomy>
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| − | </classDecl>
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| − | </encodingDesc>
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| − | ==== The text-profile description '''<profileDesc>''' ====
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| − | <textClass>
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| − | <keywords scheme="#LCSH">
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| − | <item><ref target="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85083116#concept"
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| − | >Medicine, Arabic</ref></item>
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| − | <item><ref target="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85134723#concept"
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| − | >Therapeutics</ref></item>
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| − | </list>
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| − | </keywords>
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| − | </textClass>
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| − | </profileDesc>
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| − | </pre>
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| − | The OCIMCO project uses the '''<textClass>''' element within the '''<profileDesc>''' section to classify a text by reference to the taxonomy defined in the '''<classDecl>''' element in the '''<encodingDesc>''' section, namely LCSH. The headings are recorded in a '''<keywords>''' section, the <tt>scheme</tt> attribute of which identifies the controlled vocabulary. Each subject heading constitutes an '''<item>''' in the list of keywords, which references '''<ref>''' the exact concept via a URI in the <tt>target</tt> attribute.
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| − | <change when="2009-05-14">
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| − | <name type="person">Alasdair Watson</name> created this file on 14 May 2009.
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| − | </change>
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| − | The OCIMCO project records all changes to individual records in the '''<revisionDesc>''' element. This element provides essential information for the administration of large numbers of files which are being updated, corrected, or otherwise modified as well as extremely useful documentation for records being passed from researcher to researcher or system to system. This section provides an important mechanism particularly for a collaborative project like OCIMCO to log changes and provides a basic versioning mechanism for the encoders. Each change to a record is recorded in a time-stamped '''<change>''' element, using the <tt>@when</tt> attribute.
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| − | The Manuscript Description module provides a '''<msDesc>''' element for the purpose of a detailed description of a single identifiable manuscript. It appears within the '''<sourceDesc>''' element (see
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| − | :; '''<msIdentifier>''' (manuscript identifier) : contains the information required to identify the manuscript being described.
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| − | :; '''<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.
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| − | :; '''<physDesc>''' (physical description) : contains a full physical description of a manuscript or manuscript part, optionally subdivided using more detailed elements.
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| − | :; '''<history>''' : groups elements describing the full history of a manuscript or manuscript part.
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| − | :; '''<additional>''' : groups additional information, combining bibliographic information about a manuscript, or surrogate copies of it with curatorial or administrative information.
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| − | :; '''<msPart>''' (manuscript part) : contains information about an originally distinct manuscript or part of a manuscript, now forming part of a composite manuscript.
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| − | * [http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/wtx060253.pdf ENRICH-WAMCP.RNC schema]
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| − | * [http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/assets/WTX060253.pdf WELLCOME TEMPLATE]
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