TEI element handDesc (description of hands)

<handDesc>

<handDesc> (description of hands) contains a description of all the different hands used in a manuscript or other object. [10.7.2. Writing, Decoration, and Other Notations]

Module

msdescription

Attributes

att.global
- @xml:id
- @n
- @xml:lang
- @xml:base
- @xml:space
- att.global.rendition
  - @rend
  - @style
  - @rendition
- att.global.linking
  - @corresp
  - @synch
  - @sameAs
  - @copyOf
  - @next
  - @prev
  - @exclude
  - @select
- att.global.analytic
  - @ana
- att.global.facs
  - @facs
- att.global.change
  - @change
- att.global.responsibility
  - @cert
  - @resp
- att.global.source
  - @source

hands

(hands) specifies the number of distinct hands identified within the manuscript

Status	Optional
Datatype	teidata.count

Member of

model.physDescPart

Contained by

msdescription: physDesc

May contain

core: p

header: handNote

linking: ab

msdescription: summary

Example

<handDesc>
<handNote scope="major">Written throughout in <term>angelicana formata</term>.</handNote>
</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>

Content model

<content>
 <alternate>
  <classRef key="model.pLike" minOccurs="1"
   maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
  <sequence>
   <elementRef key="summary" minOccurs="0"/>
   <elementRef key="handNote" minOccurs="1"
    maxOccurs="unbounded"/>
  </sequence>
 </alternate>
</content>

Schema Declaration

element handDesc
{
   tei_att.global.attributes,
   attribute hands { teidata.count }?,
   ( tei_model.pLike+ | ( tei_summary?, tei_handNote+ ) )
}