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The MASTER Document Type Definition: reference manual

<handDesc>

<handDesc> describes a particular style or hand distinguished within a manuscript.
Attributes 'tremulous hand', 'Hoccleve', etc. 'secretary', 'copperplate', 'Chancery', 'Italian', etc.
scribe gives a standard name or other identifier for the scribe believed to be responsible for this hand.
Datatype: CDATA
Default: #IMPLIED
script characterizes the particular script or writing style used by this hand.
Datatype: CDATA
Default: #IMPLIED
medium describes the tint or type of ink, e.g. 'brown', or other writing medium, e.g. 'pencil',
Datatype: CDATA
Default: #IMPLIED
scope specifies how widely this hand is used in the manuscript.
Datatype: (sole|major|minor)
Sample values include:
sole only this hand is used throughout the manuscript
major this hand is used through most of the manuscript
minor this hand is used occasionally in the manuscript
Default: #IMPLIED
Example 

<handDesc><p>Written in insular phase II half-uncial
with interlinear Old English gloss in an Anglo-Saxon 
pointed minuscule.</p></handDesc>
Declaration 
<!ELEMENT handDesc - -  (p+ |(overview?, palaeography?, orthography?, 
         morphology?)>  
<!ATTLIST handDesc  
      %a.global;
      scribe CDATA #IMPLIED
      script CDATA #IMPLIED
      medium CDATA #IMPLIED
      scope (sole|major|minor) #IMPLIED>
See further 2.6.2 Writing and Notations

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