Scribal Profile Hand C | |
| Current Manuscript: | Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 3 |
| Folios: | f41v (over an erasure), f184vb beginning line 18, ff185r-v |
| Sampled Folios: | 185r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: and double compartment anglicana 'a' used throughout for the text. |  | Usage: statu a word from the Latin gloss in the left margin. The scribe uses both anglicana and single compartment 'a' in the gloss. |
 | Usage: And one version of upper case 'A' on this folio. |  | Usage: And a version of upper case 'A' found frequently in Scribe D's manuscripts. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: degree a neatly executed looped 'd' with angular lower lobe and loop mainly contained above the body of the graph. |  | Usage: bidde the second 'd' of the two seen has an open interior with upper loop resolving on the left side of the lower compartment without completing the whole loop. |
 | Usage: And another example of the graph described in version 2. |  | Usage: wordles |
| G | |||
 | Usage: goþ the scribe's 'g' has a vertical aspect to its upper compartment and a horizontal splay to the lower compartment. All 'g's are double compartment. |  | Usage: right the triangular aspect of the lower compartment is clear in most of these examples. |
 | Usage: grace occasionally there is a really pointed left end to the lower triangular compartment. |  | Usage: God upper case 'G' at the beginning of a line with single bisecting vertical stroke. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: holy most of the tails of 'h' are quite short and tucked away beneath the graph. |  | Usage: hierin occasionally the scribe turns the end of the tail counter-clockwise in a short flick to finish. |
 | Usage: knyghthode both types of tail-stroke are represented in this example. |  | Usage: Haþ upper case 'H' with loop to the left of the stem. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: right modern 'r' is used in every position. |  | Usage: creatour |
 | Usage: þerfore modern 'r' after 'o'. |  | Usage: immortal |
| S | |||
 | Usage: sein long 's' used in initial and medial positions. |  | Usage: pes kidney-shaped 's' exclusively is used in final position. |
 | Usage: oppressid |  | Usage: So upper case 'S' with parallel line infill. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: wiþ 'w' with smooth left limb, closed head-loops and 'B'-shaped element to the right. |  | Usage: now 'w' in final position. |
 | Usage: weie a suggestion of a foot at the lower end of the left limb. |  | Usage: Wher |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: y almost all examples of 'y' on this folio are dotted and almost all have a short tail angling to the left then abruptly turning right with a thicker stroke at a steep angle. |  | Usage: holy |
 | Usage: wynne |  | Usage: synne |
| Thorn and Yogh | |||
 | Usage: þe thorn is used frequently on almost all occasions to replace 'th'. |  | Usage: belongiþ |
 | Usage: welþe thorn is frequently used for a replacement 'th' in the middle of words. |  | Usage: ȝit very faint, but the only yogh on the folio. |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: That |  | Usage: In |
 | Usage: Bot |  | Usage: Homward the first word of the folio. |