Scribal Profile Petworth Scribe | |
| Profiles for this Scribe: | 2. England, Lichfield, Cathedral Library MS 29 |
| Current Manuscript: | England, Lichfield, Lichfield Cathedral Library MS 29 |
| Identification: | Also known as the 'high 'g' scribe' |
| Folios: | 196v-293r |
| Sampled Folios: | 200v, 231v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: daun the scribe uses double compartment 'a' the majority of the time. |  | Usage: Marchaunt the scribe also uses single compartment 'a' occasionally. The example seen here is used in the same word as a double compartment 'a' which has a horned top. |
 | Usage: And the lower lobe of 'A' is usually squarish. |  | Usage: And |
| D | |||
 | Usage: frendes looped 'd' which may have a rounded or squarish lower lobe. |  | Usage: shuld the upper loop can be squashed onto the lower lobe or may arch back as with the upper case letter in version 3. In final position, 'd' is tagged. |
 | Usage: Dalida |  | Usage: Duane upper case letter at the beginning of a line. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: gan an angular double compartment 'g'. The graph sits on the line with just a little of the lower compartment which is beneath the line. Double compartment 'g' used most of the time. |  | Usage: wight the scribe also has a secretary form of the letter which he uses occasionally. The pointed lobe of 'g' sits on the line. |
 | Usage: scleping 'g' with tag. |  | Usage: nyght the position of 'g' sitting on the line makes this combination look rather bizarre. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: her 'h' can appear to have an open head stroke although the fine pen-lines which begin and end the stroke are visible. The vertical has a foot. Upper and lower case graphs are of the same formation. |  | Usage: the here the looped head comes into contact with the shoulder of the letter. The stem has no angled foot. |
 | Usage: The a more elaborate curved head-stroke on this graph. |  | Usage: such 'h' may be crossed in the combinations 'gh', 'th' and 'ch'. The 'h' is also always crossed in the name 'John'. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: hur long 'r' used in all positions as well as modern 'r'. Here in final position the 'r' has a flourish. |  | Usage: certein |
 | Usage: prison 'z'-shaped 'r' used mainly after 'o' and some consonants. An otiose stroke descends from the middle of the lower stroke and this is a particular characteristic of this scribe. | ||
| S | |||
 | Usage: heeres kidney-shaped 's' always used in final position. |  | Usage: scleping sigma 's' used occasionally to begin a word as also long 's'. |
 | Usage: shoke |  | Usage: Syngen |
| W | |||
 | Usage: weele the basic shape of this scribe's 'w'. Each of the lobes may vary in shape but the basic form remains the same with a 'B'-shaped element on the right side. |  | Usage: werkes although not an upper case letter, there is no difference in form between upper and lower graphs. |
 | Usage: howe a single rogue graph on this folio shows that the scribe has other possibilities. |  | Usage: way |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: falsly |  | Usage: pleye the tail of 'y' varies in length. Here the word occurs at the end of a line and the scribe adds extra length to the tail. |
 | Usage: my 'y' is occasionally dotted. |  | Usage: shortely |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: Nought |  | Usage: This |
 | Usage: Iohn the scribe has two forms of upper case 'I'. The one in this version has a hooked approach stroke which joins the stem below the top point of the vertical. |  | Usage: Iohn in this version the approach stroke continues into the descender with no hook. |
| Yogh and thorn | |||
 | Usage: vpriȝt occasional use of yogh. |  | Usage: aȝein |
 | Usage: þu occasional use of thorn. |  | Usage: makeþ frequent use of thorn for the third person singular ending of verbs. |
| p | |||
 | Usage: pleyn lower case 'p' often has a spike of the vertical which stands proud at the head of the graph. |  | Usage: pay |
 | Usage: pleye sometimes the descender of 'p' is at an angle. | ||