Scribal Profile Morganus Scribe | |
| Profiles for this Scribe: | 2. Oxford, Christ Church College MS 152 |
| Current Manuscript: | Oxford, Christ Church MS 152 |
| Identification: | Possibly the Morganus scribe? |
| Folios: | Hand 2 copied (iv), 228v (line 12) - 231, 277-281v |
| Sampled Folios: | 229r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: and the scribe forms 'a' in several ways. Here the head is rounded and upper compartment is small. |  | Usage: a here the head stroke is angled before continuing down. |
 | Usage: lady this graph is squarer with bisecting horizontal line between upper and lower portions of the graph. |  | Usage: And for upper case 'A' the upper loop is larger than the lower one. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: duryng the lower compartment is oval and smaller than the looped top. |  | Usage: meadiatrice |
 | Usage: and 'd' in final position is frequently tagged with curving stroke descending below the level of the body of the graph. |  | Usage: dyde the upper loops are flung backwards in this example. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: guyde' 'g' has upper compartment smaller than the longer oval lower compartment. The sharp point at the head is not always apparent. |  | Usage: duryng again 'g' in final position often has a long descending tag attached to the horizontal extension which extends out from near the top of the upper compartment. |
 | Usage: gloryous the graph has a hunched appearancewith horizontal extension leading through to the looped head of the following graph. |  | Usage: Ploughmannys the same situation occurs here where 'g' is followed by 'h' with looped head-stroke. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: holsom a looped head-stroke, and tail-stroke curving round clockwise before looping back to join the following graph. |  | Usage: she the horizontal stroke from the head of sigma 's' follows through to form the looped head-stroke of 'h'. |
 | Usage: seyth 'h' in combination with 't' and 'g' is frequently crossed. |  | Usage: Here upper case 'H' at the beginning of a line. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: redemptour (first r) long 'r' is used throughout except after 'o'. Here the 'e' is attached to the end of the right fork. |  | Usage: owr the fork of the letter does not systematically fall in the same place. Here the shoulder curves upwards perhaps to represent a missing 'e'? |
 | Usage: or 'z'-shaped 'r' is used after 'o'. The curious extension from the lower left of the graph is thickly drawn and occurs on all examples of this graph. |  | Usage: conquere |
| S | |||
 | Usage: syde the head of sigma 's' curves up and round to connect with the following graph. Sigma 's' used in initial and final positions. |  | Usage: blessyd a rather splayed pair of long 's's. Long 's' is used in initial and medial positions. |
 | Usage: ys sigma 's' in final position. |  | Usage: Staff upper case 'S' at the beginning of a line. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: whos the scribe's 'w' graph is consistently formed. |  | Usage: worthy the middle loop always stands above the elements to left and right. |
 | Usage: Now |  | Usage: worchype |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: pryde the tail of 'y' is usually long and gracefully curved. |  | Usage: mercy |
 | Usage: begynnyth compared with surrounding graphs, the tail of 'y' is long and this may affect the spacing between lines. |  | Usage: bysyly the tail of 'y' frequently becomes entangled in the top of graphs on the following line as the scribe attempts to copy the right number of lines per folio. |
| f | |||
 | Usage: of every final 'f' has a long trailing stroke attached. |  | Usage: of the long descending stroke from 'f' also influences the appearance of the script. |
 | Usage: lyf |  | Usage: Staff |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: Ploughmannys 'P' always has a diagonal stroke which cuts diagonally through the lobe of the graph beginning from the top of the stem. |  | Usage: That 'T' is squat with vertical bisecting line whoch loops up and round to form the head stroke. |
 | Usage: In a deeply incised head for upper case 'I'. |  | Usage: Now |
| b, l, h, k | |||
 | Usage: be the graphs shown here have wide looped heads. |  | Usage: lyf |
 | Usage: honure |  | Usage: kynde |