<msWriting>contains a description of all the different kinds of writing used in a manuscript.
Attributes:
handsspecifies the number of distinct hands identified within the manuscript
Datatype: CDATA
Values: A whole number, or the string "many"
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 further2.6.2. Writing and Notations

Appendix A Reference Documentation for Elements and Classes