[tei-council] hands=

[Arianna Ciula]

James Cummings wrote:
> Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>> Matthew James Driscoll wrote:
>>> It doesn't have to be "many", that's just what the guidelines suggest (erroneously, as it happens); it could also be "various", which is very common in manuscript descriptions. Is there not some standard way of indicating "an indeterminate or unspecified number greater than one"

I agree with Matthew that 'various' is what you normally find in 
manuscript catalogues, but, again, we can't force the use of this string 
as value.

And I agree with James that absence of @hands can't mean necessarily 
'various'.

Arianna

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