Scribal Profile Hammond Scribe | |
| Profiles for this Scribe: | 7. London, British Library MS Harley 372 |
| Current Manuscript: | London, British Library MS Harley 372 |
| Identification: | Hand 3 |
| Folios: | 71r-112 |
| Sampled Folios: | 80r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: nat single compartment 'a' used throughout. |  | Usage: chaast |
 | Usage: And |  | Usage: And the usual upper case 'A'. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: medle looped 'd', with lower lobe appearing as a quite angular hook. |  | Usage: friend 'd' with very distinctive tag extension. |
 | Usage: drynk a triangular lobe on this 'd'. | ||
| G | |||
 | Usage: scourge regular double compartment anglicana 'g'. |  | Usage: long 'g' with tag in final position. |
 | Usage: Glotenye a rather tortured upper case 'G' with vertical stroke bisecting the graph. | ||
| H | |||
 | Usage: soothes the limb is usually straight. |  | Usage: mowth in the combination 'th' the 'h' is usually crossed. |
 | Usage: his tail which loops round clockwise and continues up to connect with the next graph. | ||
| R | |||
 | Usage: rewlid 'z'-shaped 'r' used all the time in every position. Here it is in initial position. |  | Usage: Or 'z'-shaped 'r' in final position. |
 | Usage: thral |  | Usage: redegit long 'r' used in Latin gloss in right margin. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: mannes sigma 's' used in initial and final position. |  | Usage: sermon long 's' used in initial position. This arching head-stroke covering several letters is a feature of the Hammond scribe's hand. |
 | Usage: Sum |  | Usage: lesse where 'ss' is used, the scribe's first graph is well below the level of the second. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: wymmen long curving approach stroke to the left arm. |  | Usage: mowth |
 | Usage: Whan no discernible difference in the shape of the graph for the upper case letter at the beginning of a line. | ||
| Y | |||
 | Usage: sey there is little variation in 'y'. |  | Usage: hym |
 | Usage: doctryne | ||
| p | |||
 | Usage: sparith the descenders are long, finely tapering and slanted. |  | Usage: place the effect of the long tapering tail of 'p' and the lengthened arching head-stroke of long 's' has a real impact on the aspect of folios copied by this scribe. |
 | Usage: wombis p(ri)vee |  | Usage: cuppe |