All elements in alphabetic order
This list is based on a XML schema. The living documents of CEI development are stored on https.//github.com/GVogeler/CEI and infrequently pulled to this site.
The tag library is in the process to be replaced by a TEI.ODD. You can find the ODD in https://github.com/GVogeler/CEI2TEI
contains an abbreviation of any sort
Attributes: @type, @resp, @expan, @id, @lang
contains the text of the abstract/summary of the document as a head before an edited text or as a single part of calendar/regesta collection (like RI)
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains letters, words, or phrases inserted in the text by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector in a transcription of a primary source.
Attributes: @resp, @place, @cert, @hand, @to, @id, @lang
contains an additional name component, such as a nickname, epithet, or alias, or any other descriptive phrase used within a personal name.
Attributes: @id, @lang
marks the beginning of a longer sequence of text added by an author, scribe, annotator or corrector (see also add) in the transcription of a primary source.
Attributes: @resp, @place, @cert, @hand, @to, @id, @lang
contains a description of any significant additions found within a document, such as marginalia or other annotations as long as they are not a part of the bureaucratic process of the writing, keeping and using ot the document.
Attributes: @id, @lang
The person to who the document is adressed if different from the person who receives the document (<recipient>)
Attributes: @reg
Contains:
Attributes: @id, @lang, @rend, @n, @name
contains one entry in a critical apparatus, with an optional lemma and at least one reading.
Attributes: @id, @lang
marks the part of the text definde by the CID as follows: L'apprecation (lat.: apprecatio) est une formule propitiatoire par laquelle, en pendant avec l'incovation initiale, l'acte s'achève. Elle prend souvent la forme 'In Dei nomine, feliciter. Amen'
Attributes: @id, @lang
Name of the institution (archives or library) holding the document or its copy
Attributes: @expan, @abbr, @id, @lang
the archival fonds in which the document belongs or is placed
Attributes: @expan, @abbr, @id, @lang
the identification of an archival object, usually build from the name of the archive, the archival fonds and the identification code of the record within the fonds.
Attributes: @id, @n
marks the part of the text definde by the CID as follows: Le préambule (lat. arenga, exordium, proemium) est la partie du texte par laquelle celui-ci est justifié de facon générale par des considérations juridiques , religiuese, morales ou simplemtn de convenance (telle qu 'quoniam labilis est memoria').
Attributes: @id, @lang
describes the type of authentification used on the document.
Attributes: @id, @lang
restrictions of availabilty of a text (esp. in the teiHeader)
Parts of a text as appendices, indices, bibliography etc.
(bibliographic citation) contains a loosely-structured bibliographic citation of which the sub-components may or may not be explicitly tagged.
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang
(structured bibliographic citation) contains a structured bibliographic citation, in which only bibliographic subelements appear and in a specified order.
contains a description of one binding, i.e. type of covering, boards, etc. applied to a document
Attributes: @contemporary, @id, @lang
describes the present and former bindings of a document, either as a series of paragraphs or as a series of distinct binding elements, one for each binding of the document.
Attributes: @id, @lang
a geo-political unit containing one or more nation states.
Attributes: @id, @lang
Contains: Main part of a text - after a front and back matter
(character) represents a character. A single character like an punctuation mark should be given as an entity while the <c>-element might be used for marks in printed editions representing figures etc. (e.g. (C.), the three crosses in the MGH-edition) or different letter forms (e.g. long-s)
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang, @text, @function
(column break) marks the boundary between one column of a text and the next in a standard reference system.
Attributes: @n, @ed
abstract root-element
Attributes: @picture, @id, @lang
containing all informations on one single document
Attributes: @id, @lang, @n
description of the text cut in two parts in a chirograph
Attributes: @id, @lang
A quotation from some other document, together with a bibliographic reference to its source.
a textual or formal classification of the document (e.g. breve, writ, preceptum, mandato, Bulle, recognitio feodorum, oblatio, transsumptum ...)
Attributes: @type, @subtype, @id, @lang
contains a description of how the leaves or bifolia are physically arranged
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a description of the physical condition of the document.
Attributes: @id, @lang
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains the correct form of a passage apparently erroneous in the copy text.
Attributes: @id, @lang
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang
in an address, gives the name of the nation, country, colony, or commonwealth; in a place name given as a hierarchy of geo-political units, the country is larger or administratively superior to the region and smaller than the bloc.
Attributes: @id, @lang, @reg
contains an area of damage to the text witness.
Attributes: @id, @lang
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang
Attributes: @id, @lang, @calendar, @value, @certainty
Date in the way given on the document.
Attributes: @id, @lang, @rend, @n, @value
from TEI
Attributes: @to, @id, @lang, @rend, @n, @from
date in a form for sorting
Attributes: @id, @lang, @value
(from TEI)
Attributes: @id, @lang
the day component of a structured date.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a note describing either a decorative component of a document, or a fairly homogenous class of such components.
Attributes: @type, @subtype, @figurative, @technique, @quality, @illustrative, @id, @lang
contains a description of the decoration of a document, either as a sequence of paragraphs, or as a sequence of topically organised decoNote element.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a letter, word or passage deleted, marked as deleted, or otherwise indicated as superfluous or spurious in the copy text by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector.
Attributes: @type, @resp, @cert, @hand, @status, @id, @lang
marks the beginning of a longer sequence of text deleted, marked as deleted, or otherwise signaled as superfluous or spurious by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector.
Attributes: @type, @resp, @cert, @hand, @status, @id, @lang
The element is available for use anywhere in a description. It may be used to discuss (for example) dimensions of miniatures at the same time as describing the miniatures, rather than specify that information within the <extent> element.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a diplomatic analysis of the document, the formal criticism of its form and content.
Attributes: @id, @lang
Attributes: @id, @lang
that part of a relative temporal or spatial expression which indicates the distance between the place or time denoted by it and the place or time referred to within it.
Attributes: @id, @lang
Contains: Main part of a text - after a front and back matter
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang, @rend, @n
the edition in an bibliographic reference
(edition statement) groups information relating to one edition of a text
Attributes: @id, @lang
an encoding description, tagged <encodingDesc>, which describes the relationship between an electronic text and its source or sources. It allows for detailed description of whether (or how) the text was normalized during transcription, how the encoder resolved ambiguities in the source, what levels of encoding or analysis were applied, and similar matters.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains the expansion of an abbreviation.
Attributes: @abbr, @id, @lang
Attributes: @id, @lang
lists the facsimilia of the given document
Attributes: @id, @lang, @rend, @n
(Description of Figure) contains a brief prose description of the appearance or content of a graphic figure, for use when documenting an image without displaying it.
the place of a figure
Attributes: @type, @corresp, @id, @lang, @n
a file description, tagged <fileDesc>, containing a full bibliographical description of the computer file itself, from which a user of the text could derive a proper bibliographic citation, or which a librarian or archivist could use in creating a catalogue entry recording its presence within a library or archive. The term computer file here is to be understood as referring to the whole entity or document described by the header, even when this is stored in several distinct operating system files. The file description also includes information about the source or sources from which the electronic document was derived.
describes the numbering system or systems used to count the leaves or pages in a codex.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a forename, given or baptismal name.
Attributes: @id, @lang
(foreign) identifies a word or phrase as belonging to some language other than that of the surrounding text.
Attributes: @id, @lang, @n
contains the physical form of the document, i.e. single sheet, libellum, rotulus ...
(front matter) contains any prefatory matter (headers, title page, prefaces, dedications, etc.) found at the start of a document, before the main body.
indicates a point where material has been omitted in a transcription, whether for editorial reasons described in the TEI header, as part of sampling practice, or because the material is illegible or inaudible.
Attributes: @resp, @reason, @id, @lang
ontains a name component used to indicating generational information, such as Junior, or a number used in a monarch's name.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a common noun identifying some geographical feature contained within a geographic name, such as valley, mount etc.
Attributes: @id, @lang
a name associated with some geographical feature such as Windrush Valley or Mount Sinai.
Attributes: @id, @lang, @n, @reg
Contains: (title statement) groups information about the title of a work and those responsible for its intellectual content.
Attributes: @id, @n, @url
contains the body of a composite text, grouping together a sequence of distinct texts (or groups of such texts) which are regarded as a unit for some purpose, for example the collected works of an author, a sequence of prose essays, etc.
used in the header to define each distinct scribe or handwriting style.
Attributes: @id, @lang
describes a particular writing style or hand identified within a document
Attributes: @id, @lang, @rend, @n, @scribe, @medium, @scope, @script
contains a series of hand elements listing the different hands of the source.
Attributes: @id, @lang
marks the beginning of a sequence of text written in a new hand, or of a change in the scribe, writing style, ink or character of the document hand.
Attributes: @id, @lang
(heading) contains any heading, for example, the title of a section, or the heading of a list or glossary.
(highlighted) marks a word or phrase as graphically distinct from the surrounding text, for reasons concerning which no claim is made.
Attributes: @id, @lang, @rend
the hour component of a temporal expression
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains the unique identifier of a document in a body of documents or its locator in the holdings of an archives or a library
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang
groups information relating to the publication or distribution of a bibliographic item.
Attributes: @id, @lang, @level1, @level2, @level3, @level4, @indexName, @lemma
Attributes: @id, @lang
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang
contains the date when the charter is issued in any format.
Attributes: @lang, @id, @n, @calendar, @value, @certainty
contains the name of the place where the document was issued - usually as expressed in the date - with its modern name.
Attributes: @id, @lang
a container for date and place of issuing of the charter
Attributes: @id, @n
Attributes: @id, @lang, @reg
contains one component of a list.
indicates the end of a lacuna in a mostly complete textual witness.
Attributes: @id, @lang
indicates the beginning of a lacuna in the text of a mostly complete textual witness
Attributes: @id, @lang
(main-)language of the document
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a description of ruling technique and layout.
Attributes: @columns, @ruledLines, @writtenLines, @id, @lang
(line break) marks the start of a new line in the original as well as in an print
Attributes: @id, @lang, @rend, @n, @ed
text written on a seal
contains the lemma, or base text, of a textual variation.
Attributes: @id, @lang
Attributes: @targets
contains any sequence of items organized as a list.
lists any kind of bibliography
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang, @rend, @n
describes the material of the writing support
Attributes: @id, @lang
the minute component of a structured time-expression.
Attributes: @id, @lang
Contains: (heading) contains any heading, for example, the title of a section, or the heading of a list or glossary.
the month component of a structured date.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a description of all the different kinds of writing used in a document
Attributes: @hands, @id, @lang
(name, proper noun) contains a proper noun or noun phrase.
Attributes: @id, @lang, @rend, @n, @reg, @key
contains a connecting phrase or link used within a name but not regarded as part of it, such as van der or of.
Attributes: @id, @lang
gives the internal hierarchy of a multipart name, the attrib specifies the sort order of the name component in relation to others within the personal name.
Attributes: @id, @lang
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains the extra sigillum notes on the document. (cfr. VID n. 180: Les mentions hors teneur (Lat.: extra tenorem, parfois extra sigillum), placées sur les originaux sur ou sous le repli des actes, dans les amrges, auprés du sceau ou au dos de la piéce, et comportant des indications sur l'élaboration de l'acte, sur les formalités neécessaires é sa validité ou bien relatives é son entregsitrement ou é son exécution (mais distinctes des mentions ultérieures, notamment d'archivage), ne paticipent pas stricto sensu é la nature méme de l'acte. On les dit parfois 'mentions de chancellerie')
Attributes: @type, @date, @resp, @place, @id, @lang
Marks the place of the notarial sign.
Attributes: @id, @lang, @rend, @n
contains the subscription of a notary. If the notarial sign is in graphical connection with the subscription it can be marked as a part of notariusSub
Attributes: @id, @lang
Attributes: @type, @resp, @place, @id, @lang, @n, @anchored, @target, @targetEnd
(Notes statement) collects together any notes providing information about a text additional to that recorded in other parts of the bibliographic description.
a temporal expression (either a date or a time) given in terms of a named occasion such as a holiday, a named time of day, or some notable event.
Attributes: @id, @lang
that part of a relative temporal or spatial expression which indicates the direction of the offset between the two place names, dates, or times involved in the expression.
Attributes: @id, @lang
indicates a division, branch or department specified in an organizational name.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains an organizational name.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains the proper name component of an organizational name.
Attributes: @id, @lang
indicates a part of the organization name which contains information about the organization's structure or function.
Attributes: @id, @lang
marks paragraphs
Attributes: @id, @lang, @rend, @n, @ed
page break. marks the boundary between one page of a text and the next in a standard reference system.
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang, @n, @ed
contains a proper noun or proper-noun phrase referring to a person, possibly including any or all of the person's forenames, surnames, honorifics, added names, etc.
Attributes: @id, @lang, @reg
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a formal description of the document excluding text and legal content, follows the rules of the MASTER-DTD.
Attributes: @id, @lang
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang
Reference to an external picture ressource.
contains an absolute or relative place name.
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang, @reg
lists existing prints of the document
Attributes: @id, @lang
a text profile, tagged <profileDesc>, containing classificatory and contextual information about the text, such as its subject matter, the situation in which it was produced, the individuals described by or participating in producing it, and so forth. Such a text profile is of particular use in highly structured composite texts such as corpora or language collections, where it is often highly desirable to enforce a controlled descriptive vocabulary or to perform retrievals from a body of text in terms of text type or origin. The text profile may however be of use in any form of automatic text processing.
(project description) describes in detail the aim or purpose for which an electronic file was encoded, together with any other relevant information concerning the process by which it was assembled or collected.
Attributes: @id, @lang
The agency, institution, organisation or individual that created, accumulated and maintained records
Attributes: @expan, @abbr, @id, @n
Attributes: @target
(from TEI)
Attributes: @id, @lang
(publication statement) groups information concerning the publication or distribution of an electronic or other text.
provides the name of the organization responsible for the publication or distribution of a bibliographic item.
marks text passages containing text of a document inserted in another document (e.g. vidimus, transsumptum, "Vorurkunde") and other parts quoted from texts external zu the actual text.
Attributes: @source
contains a single reading within a textual variation
Attributes: @id, @lang
within a textual variation, groups two or more readings perceived to have a genetic relationship or other affinity.
Attributes: @id, @lang
The name of the person who is rmeant to eceives the document.
Attributes: @id, @lang, @reg
Attributes: @type, @resp, @id, @lang, @target
names lists containing the document described by the element.
Attributes: @id, @lang
in an address, contains the state, province, county or region name; in a place name given as a hierarchy of geo-political units, the region is larger or administratively superior to the settlement and smaller or administratively less important
Attributes: @id, @lang, @reg
contains any remark and comment not classified# in other elements.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a phrase describing the nature of a person's intellectual responsibility. (from teiHeader)
from teiHeader
indicates restoration of text to an earlier state by cancellation of an editorial or authorial marking or instruction.
Attributes: @id, @lang
a revision history, tagged <revisionDesc>, which allows the encoder to provide a history of changes made during the development of the electronic text. The revision history is important for version control and for resolving questions about the history of a file.
contains a name component which indicates that the referent has a particular role or position in society, such as an official title or rank.
Attributes: @id, @lang
classification given on the document or as an endorsment by the recipient or the archive.
Attributes: @id, @lang
the greeting clause
Attributes: @id, @lang, @rend, @n
Attributes: @id, @lang
marks a text giving the specific place of an information in an wider entity, like a page in a book or a document, or a range of pages.
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang, @rend, @n
identifcation (by name or by an abbreviation) of the scribe of the charter
gives the paleographic name for the script used in the document
Attributes: @id, @lang
Marks the place of a the seal in a text
description of the seal
Attributes: @id, @lang
the second component of a structured time-expression.
Attributes: @id, @lang
from teiHeader
any word sequence refering to a #specific# content. The type of the formula should be given in the TYPE-attribute using the semantics of the VID.
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang
contains the name of the smallest component of a place name expressed as a hierarchy of geo-political or administrative units as in Rochester, New York; Glasgow, Scotland.
Attributes: @id, @lang, @reg
contains text reproduced although apparently incorrect or inaccurate.
Attributes: @id, @lang
the abbreviation used for a document or textual witness defined in the witnesslist and refered to in the wit element in the apparatus
the person whose seal to authenticates the charter
supplies a bibliographic description of the copy text(s) from which an electronic text was derived or generated.
indicates the location of a significant space in the copy text.
Attributes: @id, @lang
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang, @rend, @n
lists scholarly studies using or dealing in any way with the document
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains the text of any kind of subscription (autograph, non-autograph, notarial subscription including the signs as monograms etc.
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang
marks superscript text in the original
signifies text supplied by the transcriber or editor in place of text which cannot be read, either because of physical damage or loss in the original or because it is illegible for any reason.
Attributes: @id, @lang
describes the material on which the document is written. Contains full text or a element structure with compulsory element <material>.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a family (inherited) name, as opposed to a given, baptismal, or nick name.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains information on the encoding of the text. Every TEI-conformant text must carry such a set of descriptions and prefixed to it
Attributes: @id, @lang
the text of the document
Attributes: @id, @lang
a general element to mark any fixed term
Attributes: @id, @lang
Attributes: @id, @lang
a single witness of the legal action represented by the charter
contains a text or a corpus of texts
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang, @n, @decl
contains a phrase defining a time of day in any format.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains an internally structured representation for a time of day.
Attributes: @id, @lang
The title of a bibliographic reference
(title statement) groups information about the title of a work and those responsible for its intellectual content.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a word, phrase, or passage which cannot be transcribed with certainty because it is illegible or inaudible in the source.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a detailed description of a watermark identified in the paper on which a document is written.
Attributes: @id, @lang, @rend, @n
the week component of a structured date.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a list of one or more sigla of witnesses attesting a given reading, in a textual variation.
Attributes: @id, @lang
gives further information about a particular witness, or witnesses, to a particular reading.
Attributes: @id, @lang
indicates the end, or suspension, of the text of a fragmentary witness.
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains a list of all the witnesses referred to in wit elements or wit attributes within the critical apparatus.
Attributes: @id, @lang
indicates the beginning, or resumption, of the text of a fragmentary witness.(from TEI)
Attributes: @id, @lang
contains either a description of a single textual witness referred to within the critical apparatus, or a list of witnesses which is to be referred to by a single sigil.
Attributes: @type, @id, @lang, @sigil
the year component of a date.
Attributes: @id, @lang
