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The MASTER Document Type Definition: reference manual

<msWriting>

<msWriting> contains a description of all the different kinds of writing used in a manuscript.
Attributes A whole number, or the string "many"
hands specifies the number of distinct hands identified within the manuscript
Datatype: CDATA
Default: #IMPLIED
Example 

<msWriting>
<p>Written in <term>angelicana formata</term>.</p>
</msWriting>
Example 

<msWriting 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>
</msWriting>
Declaration 
<!ELEMENT msWriting  - -  ((handDesc|p)+)> 
<!ATTLIST msWriting  
      %a.global;
      hands CDATA #IMPLIED>
See further 2.6.2 Writing and Notations

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