TEI P4 Beta: Reference Documentation

`readings` | elements representing variant readings in text critical work.
Attributes: |
`wit` | (witnesses) contains a list of one or more sigla indicating the witnesses which attest to a given reading.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: A space-delimited series of sigla; each sigil should correspond to a witness or witness group and occur as the value of the `sigil` attribute on a `<witness>` element elsewhere in the document.
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
      <rdg wit='El Hg'>Experience</rdg>
Note | If the apparatus contains readings only for a single witness, this attribute may be consistently omitted.
`type` | classifies the reading according to some useful typology.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Legal values: |
`substantive` | the reading offers a substantive variant.
`orthographic` | the reading differs only orthographically, not in substance, from other readings.
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
`cause` | classifies the reading as original or non-original, according to some typology of possible origins.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any word or phrase describing the cause: e.g. ``homeoteleuton'', ``homeoarchy'', ``paleographic confusion'', ``haplography'', ``dittography'', ``false emendation''.
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
`varSeq` | (variant sequence) provides a number indicating the position of this reading in a sequence, when there is reason to presume a sequence to the variants on any one lemma.
| Datatype: NUMBER
| Values: a positive integer
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
Note | Different variant sequences could be coded with distinct number trails: 1-2-3 for one sequence, 5-6-7 for another. More complex variant sequences, with (for example) multiple branchings from single readings, may be expressed through the `<join>` element.
`resp` | (responsibility) identifies the editor responsible for asserting a particular reading in the witness.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: must be one of the identifiers declared in the document header, associated with a person asserted as responsible for some aspect of the text's creation, transcription, editing or encoding (see chapter 17 ).
| Default: %INHERITED
| Example:
Note | This attribute is only available within an apparatus gathering variant readings in the transcription of an individual witness. It may not occur in an apparatus gathering readings from different witnesses.
`hand` | signifies the hand responsible for a particular reading in the witness.
| Datatype: IDREF
| Values: must be one of the hand identifiers declared in the document header (see section 18.2.1 ).
| Default: %INHERITED
| Example:
Note | This attribute is only available within an apparatus gathering variant readings in the transcription of an individual witness. It may not occur in an apparatus gathering readings from different witnesses.
`wit` | (witness) contains a list of one or more sigla of witnesses attesting a given reading.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: the list of sigla.
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
Note | This attribute may occur both within an apparatus gathering variant readings in the transcription of an individual witness and within an apparatus gathering readings from different witnesses. In local encoding schemes, the value of the `wit` attribute can be enforced as IDREFS, such that only witnesses referred to in a `<witList>` element may occur as witnesses to a reading.

Note

This element class defines attributes inherited by `<rdg>` , `<lem>` , and `<rdg.grp>` .

Tagset additional tag set for text criticism
Class
Filename `teitc2.ent`
Parents [none]
Members lem rdg rdgGrp restore
Declaration `<!ENTITY % a.readings ' %a.global wit CDATA #IMPLIED type CDATA #IMPLIED cause CDATA #IMPLIED varSeq NUMBER #IMPLIED resp CDATA %INHERITED hand IDREF %INHERITED' >`
See 19.1

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