Scribal Profile Hand 1 | |
| Current Manuscript: | Cambridge, Magdalene College MS Pepys 2006 |
| Folios: | Part 2; 1r-60v (225-346) |
| Sampled Folios: | folio 1r (p225) |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: and most of the scribe's lower case 'a's have a tiny extended hair-line which stands at the apex of the letter. |  | Usage: Chaucers double compartment 'a' used in the scribe's display script for the rubric. |
 | Usage: Allas upper case 'A'. | ||
| D | |||
 | Usage: called looped 'd' with pointed lobe at the left side. |  | Usage: ladders |
 | Usage: Ouidi(us) the scribe's display script unlooped 'd' in an internal gloss. |  | Usage: chylde occasional use of unlooped 'd' in the main text. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: myghty tailed 'g' with horned head and elegantly curved tail turning clockwise with final downward turn to finish. |  | Usage: gan |
 | Usage: nought the combination 'ght' with crossed 'h' following 'g'. | ||
| H | |||
 | Usage: hath 'h' usually has a foot on the stem. |  | Usage: wyth 'h' is almost always crossed in the combination 'th' where the letters occur at the end of a word. |
 | Usage: Chaucers the scribe's 'h' in his display script. |  | Usage: Here the opening 'H' of the rubric. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: rentyng modern 'r' is used sparingly. |  | Usage: lenger the scribe uses 'z'-shaped 'r' in most positions in preference to modern 'r'. The 'z'-shaped 'r' does not usually have a descending tag. |
 | Usage: remedio 'z'-shaped 'r' in initial position in the internal Latin gloss. | ||
| S | |||
 | Usage: his kidney 's' is only used in final position. |  | Usage: sondry sigma 's' is only used in initial position. Long 's' is also used occasionally initially. |
 | Usage: Chaucers almost an 8-shaped 's' with otiose ascending tag. |  | Usage: sothe |
| W | |||
 | Usage: was a separate left limb for this graph. The angled stroke is straight and much taller than the following 'v' element but it ends above the lower level of the 'v'. |  | Usage: which 'w' at the beginning of a line usually has a curving approach stroke. |
 | Usage: Wounded an even more elaborate example of version 2. |  | Usage: wenten |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: wyfe |  | Usage: ryche 'y' is occasionally dotted. |
 | Usage: crye 'y' with a more curved tail. The scribe's 'y's do not usually trace such a wide curve. | ||
| Marks | |||
 | Usage: myghty this mark appears over two of the 'y's on the top line. However, it also appears in other places on the folio so is not a feature of display on the top line. |  | Usage: begyneth another mark which appears here above 'y'. It would seem possible that it could be a macron for an extra 'n' in this word. However, see version 3. |
 | Usage: myghty it is difficult to see what purpose is served by this mark over 'myghty'. |  | Usage: wyth amyable again there seems no reason for the mark to appear in this position. |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: Chaucers all the upper case letters shown here have an extra curving stroke within the body of the graph itself. |  | Usage: Prudence |
 | Usage: This |  | Usage: Ouide |