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<LastName>
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<ForeName>
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<Initials>
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<Suffix>
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<Role>
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<Author> is an envelope for the authorship of the resource. The following group of child elements is used:

<LastName>A single form of the author name is cited in this element. In most cases, many variants of a given author name exist, and a range of variants has been provided for searching purposes in the separate pdf file (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/indexcat/pdf/tkvk-namelist.pdf). This element is not required as many texts are anonymous or the author has not been identified.
<ForeName> for future use
<Initials> for future use
<Suffix> for future use
<Role> used to indicate one of the following two values:

Attributed - where the validity of an author designation is in question or disputed.
Translator - identifies the translator of a work not originally written in Latin or English. Many Old English and Middle English texts are translations from Latin or French.

Example(s):

<Author>

<LastName>Bad., Joh.</LastName>

</Author>

<Author>

<LastName>Daniel</LastName>

<Role>Attributed</Role>

</Author>

<Author>

<LastName>Potano</LastName>

<Role>Translator</Role>

</Author>

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There can be up to ten <CrossReference> in any record. Each one sends the user to a similar or a related incipit. A <CrossReference> can also send the user to a record where a different incipit begins the text. In addition, when extra prologue or text incipit references are needed, they may be incorporated in this element.

Example(s):
<CrossReference>A primo pabulo salis medicinalis</CrossReference>
<CrossReference>Suffragare Trinitatis unitas / Unitatis miserere</CrossReference>

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<Year>
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<Month>
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<Day>
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The <DateRevised> is the date when NLM updated the record.

Example(s):

<DateRevised>

<Year>2013</Year>
<Month>02</Month>
<Day>15</Day>

</DateRevised>

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The <eTKeVK2ID> is a 10 digit alpha-numeric identifier used to uniquely identify every record in eTKeVK2. It consists of the following segments:

position 1: Either 't' for eTK or 'v' for eVK2
position 2: zero as a placeholder
position 3-7: database record ID number
position 8-11: four zeros as placeholders

Example(s):
<eTKeVK2ID>t0000240000</eTKeVK2ID>
<eTKeVK2ID>t0001810000</eTKeVK2ID>
<eTKeVK2ID>v0000960000</eTKeVK2ID>
<eTKeVK2ID>v0007960000</eTKeVK2ID>

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There can be as many as five <GeneralNote> elements in one record. In the case where information additional to five elements is provided, the record is repeated, varying only in a few elements. Most bibliographical citations in this field are abbreviated. Expanded citations can be found in separate pdf files (for eTK https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/indexcat/pdf/etk-bibl.pdf and for eVK2 https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/indexcat/pdf/evk-bibl.pdf). Records created from a printed book have that information entered in this element.

This field is also used as a "notes" field for information that has come to light since the publication of the original Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre's A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (TK) or has been supplied by the electronic Thorndike and Kibre (eTK) database advisors. It should be emphasized that providing such additional information does not imply a complete revision of TK. An attempt to incorporate new information has been provided upon awareness of it.

See also <TitleAlternate>.

Example(s):
<GeneralNote>printed with Firmicus Maternua, Basel 1551, pp.74-78</GeneralNote>
<GeneralNote>no folio numbers</GeneralNote>
<GeneralNote>Cockayne 1864-1866</GeneralNote>
<GeneralNote>Leonhardi 1905</GeneralNote>

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<Incipit> provides the opening words of the text. No punctuation and only minimal capitalization have been retained from the original Lynn Thorndike and Pearl Kibre's A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin (TK). The incipit is not a unique identifier, as it can be repeated in subsequent records for additional information. Orthographic variants are addressed in a separate file (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/indexcat/pdf/etk-orthogvar.pdf). In some records this element will contain only cross-reference information.

Example(s):
<Incipit>A primo pabulo solis medicinalis sapentie</Incipit>
<Incipit>Genim brade bisceopwyrt and feld bisceopwyrt and greate wyrt and galluc</Incipit>

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If a text has a separate prologue record, <IncipitPrologue> provides the incipit for that prologue, which will be found in an independent record with a different <eTKeVK2ID>. Prologues and texts at times circulated independently.

Example(s):
<Incipit>Absinthium calidum est in primo gradu</Incipit>
<IncipitPrologue>Quoniam disputationem simplicis medicine universaliter</IncipitPrologue>

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If a prologue has a separate text record, this field provides the incipit for that text, which will be found in an independent record. Prologues and texts at times circulated independently.

Example(s):
<Incipit>A primo pabulo solis medicinalis sapenties</Incipit>
<IncipitText>Eisagoga cassia fistula</IncipitText>

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There can be up to five <Keyword> in a record. In the case of more than five, the record is repeated and it varies only in the <Keyword> fields. <Keyword> have been supplied in eTKeVK2 from a controlled vocabulary of subjects, which is provided in a separate pdf file (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/indexcat/pdf/tkvk-subjectlist.pdf). These <Keyword> attributions are based for the most part on incipit and general bibliographic information, and should be taken only as suggestions. <Keyword> is also used to supply such descriptors as "Verse" or "Illustration," which are not, strictly speaking, subjects. Those texts for which no <Keyword> could be identified have been designated "Undetermined."

Example(s):
<Keyword>Recipes, medical</Keyword>
<Keyword>Regimen of health</Keyword>
<Keyword>Diet</Keyword>
<Keyword>Verse</Keyword>

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Old English and Middle English are the two required languages designated and found in records where <eTKeVK2Record Source="Voigts">. <Language> is not found in records where <eTKeVK2Record Source="Thorndike">.

Example(s):
<Language>Middle English</Language>
<Language>Old English</Language>

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<City>
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<Library>
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<Location> is an envelope that indicates where the manuscript is held, the library collection and shelfmark. All records where <eTKeVK2Record Source="Voigts"> require this element, it is optional where <eTKeVK2Record Source="Thorndike">. The following group of child elements is used:

<City> - indicates where the manuscript is held. English spelling is used for city names. Where city names have changed since the publication of TK, the city names used are cited in Latin Manuscript Books Before 1600, 4th rev. ed., by Paul Oskar Kristeller and Sigrid Krämer (Munich: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, 1993). All records where <eTKeVK2Record Source="Voigts"> will contain this element.
<Library> - provides the library name, collection information (where known), and shelfmark or call number of the manuscript. Where library or collection names have changed since the publication of TK, the new designations from Kristeller and Krämer have been supplied. It has not always proved possible to identify a library when TK gives only a place-name. In some instances information from printed catalogues is also provided in this field.

Example(s):

<Location>

<City>Cambridge</City>

<Library>CUL Gg.3.28</Library>

</Location>

<Location>

<City>London</City>

<Library>Wellcome Library 46</Library>

</Location>

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<Pagination> provides inclusive foliation or pagination, where that information is available. This field can also contain information designating flyleaf texts, marginal texts, excerpts and an indication that the text is incomplete. <Pagination> is always required in records where <eTKeVK2Record Source="Voigts">

Example(s):
<Pagination>ff. 255-61v</Pagination>
<Pagination>single leaf (5 recipes) (incomplete)</Pagination>

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<PubDate> provides the manuscript date if known. This information is always enclosed in parentheses.

Example(s):
<PubDate>(15c)</PubDate>
<PubDate>(10c-11c)</PubDate>

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<SortData> is comprised of data from <eTKeVK2ID>, <LastName>, <Incipit>, and <PubDate> if available. This element provides a method to allow one to sort the records in order.

Example(s):
<SortData>t0002030000 Absinthium calidum est in primo gradu. (14c)</SortData>
<SortData>t0002060000 Absinthium calidum in primo.</SortData>
<SortData>v0002620000 Lydgate, John. For health of body cover for cold?. (15c)</SortData>

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This element indicates another title for the text which is in an additional record. Other titles may also be recorded in <GeneralNote>.

Example(s):
<TitleAlternate>De diebus et noctibus</TitleAlternate>
<TitleAlternate>Lorica</TitleAlternate>

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