Scribal Profile Hand 1 | |
| Current Manuscript: | London, British Library MS Additional 12044 |
| Folios: | 1-64v |
| Sampled Folios: | 17r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: al lower case 'a' is always a double compartment letter. |  | Usage: as straight-sided 'a' with horizontal cross-bar. |
 | Usage: And the scribe's looped upper case 'A's differ in the shape of the lower compartment which may be square or rounded. |  | Usage: And |
| D | |||
 | Usage: land lower case 'd' nearly always has an angular lower lobe. |  | Usage: pandarus |
 | Usage: coude unusual occurrence of a more rounded letter. | | Usage: bedde double 'd''. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: game double compartment 'g' used throughout. |  | Usage: doyng 'g' as final letter with tag. |
 | Usage: nought 'g' is often to be found with lower compartment angled to the right of the upper lobe. |  | Usage: grene |
| H | |||
 | Usage: shent the most usual shape for 'h' with triangular head-stroke. The stem of the letter is very slightly angled to the right. |  | Usage: this the tail is tucked away but extends clockwise back beyond the body of the graph. |
 | Usage: nought the scribe almost always crosses the 'h' in 'th', 'gh', and 'ght' combinations. |  | Usage: Halt upper case 'H' at the beginning of a line with open head-stroke and pronounced angled foot to the stem. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: were long 'r' is used in all positions. |  | Usage: or 'z'-shaped 'r' after 'o'. |
 | Usage: grauen |  | Usage: Right initial upper case 'R' at the beginning of a line. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: as sigma 's' used in both final and initial positions. |  | Usage: sawes initial letter of a word. |
 | Usage: skarsely long 's' is used in medial positions. |  | Usage: So upper case letter at the beginning of a line. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: wheche the more or less consistent shape of this scribe's 'w', here rather larger than usual on the top line of verse. |  | Usage: lawes |
 | Usage: white |  | Usage: How very little variation in this letter except for height of middle stroke. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: eu(er)y 'y' is consistently formed and varies only in the length of tail-stroke. |  | Usage: thy men the tail stroke continues into the space before the following word begins. |
 | Usage: may occasionally the tail appears shorter and the letter more squat. |  | Usage: lay he |
| I | |||
 | Usage: I distinctive upper case 'I' with looped or curved approach stroke to thick stalk which tapers as it descends. Use of this form and the simpler shape of version 3 seem interchangeable. |  | Usage: In the word is the third word of the line. |
 | Usage: I a simpler variation of upper case 'I'. |  | Usage: In the first word of the line. The lower traces of the stem may be seen beneath the 'A' of the line below. |
| Yogh | |||
 | Usage: Ȝif yogh as initial letter of a line. |  | Usage: ȝit the word is in the middle of a line but the yogh is a large letter compared with the surrounding ones. |
 | Usage: ȝif |  | Usage: aȝeyn |