P5 Fascicule

<handDesc>

handDesc contains a description of all the different kinds of writing used in a manuscript.
Declaration 
element handDesc
{
   tei.global.attributes,
   ## () specifies the number of distinct hands identified within the manuscript
   
   attribute hands { datatype.Key }?,
   ( handNote | tei.paragraph )+
}
Attributes
(In addition to global attributes)
hands specifies the number of distinct hands identified within the manuscript
Status:
Datatype: datatype.Key
Values: A whole number, or the string "many"
Example 
 <handDesc>
  <p>Written in <term>angelicana formata</term>.</p>
 </handDesc>
Example 
 <handDesc hands="2">
  <p>The manuscript is written in two contemporary hands, otherwise
   unknown, but clearly those of practised scribes.  Hand I writes
   ff. 1r-22v and hand II ff. 23 and 24. Some scholars, notably
   Verner Dahlerup and Hreinn Benediktsson, have argued for a third hand
   on f. 24, but the evidence for this is insubstantial.</p>
 </handDesc>
See further 1.7.2 Writing, decoration, and other notations
Module msdescription