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Scribal Profile Hammond Scribe | |
| Profiles for this Scribe: | 9. London, British Library MS Royal 17 D. XV part 1 |
| Current Manuscript: | London, British Library MS Royal 17 D.XV part 1 |
| Identification: | Hand B |
| Folios: | Hand B copied 167r-301r |
| Sampled Folios: | 167r, 241r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: passed little variation in single compartment 'a'. |  | Usage: aright |
 | Usage: And | ||
| D | |||
 | Usage: don there is little variation in the formation of the scribe's 'd' graph which is always looped. |  | Usage: chield 'd' in final position features a diagonal tag descending from the extension of the loop. |
 | Usage: badde | ||
| G | |||
 | Usage: Boloigne 'g' is always double compartment. |  | Usage: Besechyng the double compartment 'g' has a slightly larger lower lobe. Here in final position a tag is attached to the horizontal slash (which in this example is sloping upwards). |
 | Usage: dought(er) 'gh' combination. | ||
| H | |||
 | Usage: whens the scribe's formation of 'h' is extremely consistent. |  | Usage: goth in the 'th' combination the cross bar of 't' extends to cross the 'h'. The 'ght' combination is not crossed. |
 | Usage: He even the upper case letter varies little. | ||
| R | |||
 | Usage: Margarys example to show the scribe's use of both 'z'-shaped 'r' and modern 'r'. 'z'-shaped 'r' is used in all positions. |  | Usage: reto(ur)ne 'z'-shaped 'r' in initial position. This 'r' is used for the majority of the time. |
 | Usage: myrry the only use of long 'r' on f167r, but used in initial position also on f241r. | ||
| S | |||
 | Usage: she sigma 's' used in initial and final positions. |  | Usage: was |
 | Usage: besy a characteristic of the Hammond scribe is the arching head-stroke on long 's' which sweeps over following letters and spaces. |  | Usage: swerdis long 's' in initial position with head-stroke arching over the following letter. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: whider again the scribe's 'w' graph shows little variation. |  | Usage: nowe |
 | Usage: Were upper case 'W' at the beginning of a line. The left limb of the letter is longer than in the previous examples. | ||
| Y | |||
 | Usage: Besechyng the tail of 'y' is usually fairly short and does not describe a great arc. |  | Usage: myght on some occasions, the right arm of 'y' is higher than the left arm of the graph. |
 | Usage: Yif 'Y' in initial position in the line and tipped with red ink. | ||
| p | |||
 | Usage: spak the descender of 'p' is at an acute angle. |  | Usage: Tercia pars |
 | Usage: vpon |  | Usage: Pavyk even upper case 'P' has the same characteristics. |
| Some Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: Ne |  | Usage: Ernest |
 | Usage: But |  | Usage: This |