Select list of DIV types

This is a representative sample of common (and a few less common) types of text division found among the EEBO items. This is only a sample: EEBO texts include works of many kinds, many of which have their own specialized parts and features. No attempt is made here to represent all of these.

DIVx TYPE=" ... "

Key

• "UF" = "Use for" (i.e. use this instead of that)
• "SEE" = "Don't use this; instead use that"
• "SEE ALSO" = "Consider using that instead of this"

Types

• account
• act (i.e., of a play or masque)
• addendum/-a
• advertisement
• afterword
• anthem (prefer: HYMN)
• appendix
• [argument : SEE TEI TAGS]
• article
• bibliography
• biography
• back matter
• body (e.g. of letter, etc.)
• book (UF: bk., lib., liber, etc.)
• canto
• [capitulum : SEE CHAPTER]
• [cast list: SEE DRAMATIS PERSONAE]
• catalogue
• chapter (UF: chap., cap., chapitre, etc.)
• chorus
• coda
• collection
• colophon (i.e., imprint info at end of book; usu. prefer to "imprint")
• commentary
• [compilation: SEE COLLECTION]
• conclusion
• [contents : SEE TABLE OF CONTENTS]
• day (e.g. in a calendar, book of daily readings, or journal)
• dedication (UF: dedicatory poem, dedicatory epistle, etc.)
• [dedicatory poem, epistle, etc.: SEE DEDICATION]
• [diagram: SEE ILLUSTRATION]
• dialogue
• discourse
• document, or more specifically, as feasible:
  • will
  • proclamation
  • bill of fare
  • letter patent
  • deposition
  • report
  • [etc.]
• doctrine
• dramatis personae
• encomium, pl. encomia (i.e., formal expressions of praise, esp. poetic accolades of one poet by another)
• entry (e.g. in a journal or dictionary)
• [epigraph : SEE TEI TAGS]
• epilogue
• [epistle: SEE LETTER]
• errata
• essay
• explication (prefer: COMMENTARY)
• [frontispiece: SEE ILLUSTRATION]
• front matter
• glossary
• half title
• hymn: SEE ALSO ANTHEM
• illustration(s) (UF: picture, figure, etc.); or, more specifically:
  • frontispiece
  • diagram
  • chart
  • map
• [illustrations : SEE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS]
• imprimatur : UF: permission; SEE ALSO LICENSE
• [imprint : SEE COLOPHON]
• index/indexes (UF: index nominum, index operum, index locorum, etc.)
• introduction
• invocation
• item
• lecture
• lesson
• letter(s) (UF: epistle)
• [liber: SEE BOOK]
• license : SEE ALSO IMPRIMATUR
• list, or more specifically as feasible:
  • list of illustrations (UF:illustrations)
  • list of authors
  • [list of contents: SEE TABLE OF CONTENTS]
  • [etc.]
• [litany: SEE PRAYER]
• map
• masque
• month (e.g. in a calendar or journal)
• note(s), or more specifically as feasible:
  • author's note
  • printer's note
  • translator's note
  • editor's note
  • publisher's note
  • [etc.]
• [oraison : SEE PRAYER]
• oration
• [outline: SEE SUMMARY]
• [pars: SEE PART]
• part / subpart
• [picture: SEE ILLUSTRATION]
• play (SEE ALSO: dialogue, masque)
• poem(s), or more specifically if feasible:
  • ode
  • sonnet
  • ballad
  • elegy
  • distich
  • epithalamium
  • [etc.]
• postscript (e.g. to a letter)
• prayer (UF: litany, oraison, supplication, etc.)
  • benediction
• preface
  • translator's preface
  • editor's preface, etc.
• [preface to reader : USE PREFACE]
• prologue
• proposition
• recipe
• response
• scene (i.e., of a play or masque)
• section / subsection
• sermon
• song(s)
• speech [see also: ORATION (for political speech, etc.) or TEI TAGS (for dramatic speech)]
• story
• summary
• table
• table of contents (UF: contents)
• [TEI tag names. When a DIV is required to tag something that might otherwise receive a TEI tag name, and other names don't suit, use the tag name as the value of the attribute, e.g.:]
  • argument
  • byline
  • opener (e.g. for books having only an opening phrase in place of a title page)
• text (as opposed to commentary)
• text of ... part, sermon, etc. (as opposed to front and back matter)
• title page [UF titlepage]
  • title page of part
• to reader, or more specifically as feasible:
  • printer to reader
  • author to reader
  • translator to reader
  • [etc.]
• [tome: SEE VOLUME]
• translation
• treatise
• [tribute(s) SEE : encomium]
• version
• vision
• volume (UF: tome, vol., etc.)
• year (e.g. in a calendar or journal)