<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. [11.6 Intellectual Content]
Module msdescription — Manuscript Description
Attributes
Contained by
msdescription: msDesc msFrag msPart
namesdates: object
May contain
core: p textLang
linking: ab
msdescription: msItem msItemStruct 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.
Example
<msContents class="#sermons">
 <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="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 &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>
Content model 
<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>
Schema Declaration 
<rng:element name="msContents">
 <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.rendition.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.linking.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.analytic.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.facs.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.change.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.responsibility.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.global.source.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.msExcerpt.attributes"/>
 <rng:ref name="att.msClass.attributes"/>
 <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.global.rendition.attributes,
   att.global.linking.attributes,
   att.global.analytic.attributes,
   att.global.facs.attributes,
   att.global.change.attributes,
   att.global.responsibility.attributes,
   att.global.source.attributes,
   att.msExcerpt.attributes,
   att.msClass.attributes,
   (
      model.pLike+
    | ( summary?, textLang?, titlePage?, ( msItem | msItemStruct )* )
   )
}