Scribal Profile Rylands English 63 Scribe | |
| Profiles for this Scribe: | 1. England, Manchester, John Rylands Library MS English 63 (fragment) and (Philadelphia, Rosenbach Library MS 1084/2) |
| Current Manuscript: | England, Manchester, John Rylands Library MS Eng. 63 |
| Folios: | 1r-2v |
| Sampled Folios: | 1r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: as double compartment 'a' with cross bar is used throughout. |  | Usage: And the scribe has several forms for upper case 'A'. |
 | Usage: And | ||
| D | |||
 | Usage: nedith looped 'd' with angular lobe, evenly formed is used throughout. |  | Usage: Goddis |
 | Usage: fynd 'd' in final position nearly always has an attached vertical tag as a continuation of the upper loop. |  | Usage: Demeth |
| G | |||
 | Usage: goddis tailed 'g' with angular lobe and hairline joining stroke across the head. |  | Usage: thing 'g' in final position with tag from the horizontal extension. |
 | Usage: Goddis |  | Usage: begynnyth the rubric for the incipit to the Miller's Tale. The scribe loves to elaborate tailed graphs in his display script. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: have a simple form of 'h' with open head and short stroke for the limb and virtually no tail extension. |  | Usage: thing 'th' combination. |
 | Usage: He upper case 'H' at the beginning of a line. Here the tail continues in curved fashion clockwise beneath the body of the graph. |  | Usage: Here elaborate 'H' at the beginning of the rubric. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: pryvitees long 'r' used throughout in all positions. |  | Usage: for 'z'-shaped 'r' used after 'o' and other round-bodied graphs. |
 | Usage: Myller flourish on final 'r'. | ||
| S | |||
 | Usage: Goddis kidney-shaped 's' used in final position. |  | Usage: self sigma 's' used in both initial and final positions. |
 | Usage: So upper case 'S' at the beginning of a line. |  | Usage: storial long 's' used initially and medially. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: wyfe rounded secretary 'w' made up of two 'v's. |  | Usage: What upper case letter at the beginning of a line. |
 | Usage: owir display letter in the rubric. | ||
| Y | |||
 | Usage: my the tail of 'y' usually turns counter-clockwise and extends towards the next graph. |  | Usage: Yit |
 | Usage: begynnyth again the elaborate treatment of tailed letters in the scribe's display script. | ||