Origin field in MS. Thurston needs a fix by the cataloguer

[yf227]

manuscript_1807

[andrew-morrison]

This is the "extreme example" mentioned in #43, whose URL is now:

https://www.fihrist.org.uk/catalog/manuscript_1807

If you scroll to the bottom, past the 67 works in this manuscript, you'll find 67 different numbers of folios, and 67 origin dates, in two long lists. That is because in the TEI they are expressed like this and this. As I understand it, the use of ref elements to link to msItem was a workaround used prior to 2018, because the old Fihrist web site didn't support the msPart element in the TEI standard.

To fix this record, and other similar records, ideally you would completely rewrite it using msPart, which allows each part to have its own physDesc and history, as described in the documentation here:

https://msdesc.github.io/consolidated-tei-schema/msdesc.html#msPart

Or, if you don't have the time to do that, you could replace those long lists with a summary, explaining that it is a composite manuscript, and giving an overview, including an origDate covering the range of creation dates, but not details of every part/work.

There are 636 other records with multiple dates in their origin. Most contain only a few works. Some may not be composite manuscripts at all, but inherited the use of refs because they were adapted from another record which used them. They belong to the Bodleian (519), CUL (57), SOAS (33), BL (10), Birmingham (6), Royal Asiatic Society (6), Wadham (5), and Manchester (1). If anyone wishes to review them, the attached spreadsheet contains a list:

fihrist_multiparts_march_2023.xlsx