TEI P4 Beta: Reference Documentation

`<hand>` | used in the header to define each distinct scribe or handwriting style.
Attributes: |
`hand` | identifier, either numeric or alphanumeric, used thereafter in the document to refer to this scribe or handwriting style.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
Note | This attribute is retained only for compatibility with P3 and may be withdrawn at a later version. Its use is deprecated; the `id` attribute should be used to supply a unique identifier for the hand; the `n` attribute may be used to supply an alternative (and possibly non-unique) name.
`id` | identifier, either numeric or alphanumeric, used thereafter in the document to refer to this scribe or handwriting style.
| Datatype: ID
| Default: #REQUIRED
| Example:
`scribe` | gives the name of, or other identifier for, the scribe.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: 'tremulous hand', 'hand b', 'Hoccleve'
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
`style` | indicates recognized writing styles.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: 'secretary', 'copperplate', 'Chancery', 'Italian', etc.
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
`lang` | (language) indicates dominant language of hand.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: 'Latin', 'English'
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
`ink` | describes tint or type of ink, e.g. 'brown'. May also be used to indicate the writing medium, e.g. 'pencil',
| Datatype: CDATA
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
`character` | describes other characteristics of the hand, particularly those related to the quality of the writing.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: 'shaky', 'thick', 'regular'
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
`first` | indicates the first scribe in the document.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: 'YES', 'NO'
| Default: #IMPLIED
| Example:
`resp` | (responsible) indicates the editor or transcriber responsible for identifying the hand.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: must be one of the identifiers declared in the document header, associated with a person asserted as responsible for some aspect of the text's creation, transcription, editing or encoding (see chapter 17 ).
| Default: %INHERITED
| Example:

Example

Note

The `<hand>` element is used in the header to define each unique hand, including unique scribes, distinguished by the encoder in the document. One such element must appear within the header for each hand distinguished in the text. Each location where a change of hands occurs is marked in the text by the `<handShift>` milestone element.

Tagset additional tag set for transcription of primary sources
Class
Filename `teitran2`
Content: Empty.
Parents handList
Children [none]
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT hand          - O  EMPTY                              >
    <!ATTLIST hand               %a.analysis
                                 %a.linking
                                 %a.terminology
              n                  CDATA               #IMPLIED
              rend               CDATA               #IMPLIED
              hand               CDATA               #IMPLIED
              id                 ID                  #REQUIRED
              scribe             CDATA               #IMPLIED
              style              CDATA               #IMPLIED
              lang               CDATA               #IMPLIED
              ink                CDATA               #IMPLIED
              character          CDATA               #IMPLIED
              first              CDATA               #IMPLIED
              resp               CDATA               %INHERITED     >

See 18.2.1

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