handDesc (hendiLetters)
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<handDesc> (description of hands) contains a description of all the different hands used in a manuscript or other object.
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Attributes
hands
(hands)
specifies the number of distinct hands identified within the manuscript
Datatype
teidata.count
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>
