<handDesc>

<handDesc> (description of hands) contains a description of all the different kinds of writing used in a manuscript. 10.7.2 Writing, Decoration, and Other Notations
Module msdescription — 10 Manuscript Description
In addition to global attributes In addition to global attributes
hands specifies the number of distinct hands identified within the manuscript
Status Optional
Datatype 

<rng:ref name="data.count"/>
data.count
Used by
model.physDescPart
May contain
core: p
header: handNote
linking: ab
msdescription: summary
Declaration 

<rng:element name="handDesc">
 <rng:ref name="att.global.attributes"/>
 <rng:optional>
  <rng:attribute name="hands">
   <rng:ref name="data.count"/>
  </rng:attribute>
 </rng:optional>
 <rng:choice>
  <rng:oneOrMore>
   <rng:ref name="model.pLike"/>
  </rng:oneOrMore>
  <rng:group>
   <rng:optional>
    <rng:ref name="summary"/>
   </rng:optional>
   <rng:oneOrMore>
    <rng:ref name="handNote"/>
   </rng:oneOrMore>
  </rng:group>
 </rng:choice>
</rng:element>
element handDesc
{
   att.global.attributes,
   attribute hands { data.count }?,
   ( model.pLike+ | ( summary?, handNote+ ) )
}
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>