Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | England, London, British Library MS Royal 8 A.XXI |
| Folios: | 1v (two verses only on flyleaf) |
| Sampled Folios: | 1v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: a a very degraded fly-leaf fragment. The scribe uses both single and double compartment 'a'. |  | Usage: charged |
 | Usage: man double compartment 'a' stands above the level of surrounding graphs. |  | Usage: And again the scribe employs both single and double compartment upper case 'A'. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: delicat looped 'd' is used throughout. |  | Usage: forbode |
 | Usage: charged the bowl of 'd' may be squarish or rounded as in this example. |  | Usage: |
| G | |||
 | Usage: god tailed 'g' which resembles the modern letter. |  | Usage: thing the head of 'g' is closed with a very fine hairline stroke which is now difficult to distinguish. |
 | Usage: stronge the tail loops round and crosses itself to join to the following graph. |  | Usage: charged |
| H | |||
 | Usage: hirteth tail-stroke may extend in a clockwise curve back beyond the line of the stem. |  | Usage: fareth 'h' after 't' in final position is sometimes crossed. |
 | Usage: bothe sometimes the limb is more or less vertical. |  | Usage: lecherye |
| R | |||
 | Usage: lecherye long 'r' is used in all positions and is the only type of 'r' in this fragment. |  | Usage: mesur(e) 'r' with flourish probably representative of 'e'. |
 | Usage: firen 'e' attached to the top of the right fork of 'r'. |  | Usage: charged |
| S | |||
 | Usage: soule long 's' with thick stem. |  | Usage: silence long 's' with split stem. |
 | Usage: ys sigma 's' used in final position. |  | Usage: stronge |
| W | |||
 | Usage: what cursive 'w' with tall middle loop. |  | Usage: swete |
 | Usage: Wt |  | Usage: What no difference between upper and lower case graphs. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: ys 'y' is very difficult to distinguish from thorn. This could be the scribe's abbreviation for 'this' rather than 'ys'. |  | Usage: body 'y' with long straight tail-stroke. |
 | Usage: Wyne |  | Usage: lecherye |
| Thorn | |||
 | Usage: þei very similar to the scribe's 'y' graph. |  | Usage: þt |
 | Usage: þe the scribe frequently uses thorn with a superscript for an abbreviation. |  | Usage: Ȝif the single yogh in this fragment. |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: Causeth |  | Usage: Thei |
 | Usage: Lafe |  | Usage: And |