Scribal Profile Devonshire scribe, TCC R.3.3 scribe or slanted hooked 'g' scribe | |
| Profiles for this Scribe: | 5. Tokyo, Professor Takamiya of Keio University MS 24 |
| Current Manuscript: | Tokyo, Takamiya Collection MS 24 |
| Folios: | 1-282 |
| Sampled Folios: | 162r, 275v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: quaking note the purple ruling.Single compartment 'a' used by this scribe. |  | Usage: al |
 | Usage: And one of several upper case 'A's. |  | Usage: And |
| D | |||
 | Usage: And there are many hairline strokes attached to final letters of words. These contrast with the thickened descenders of 's' and 'f'. |  | Usage: word looped 'd' and unlooped 'd' are both used by the scribe. Where the looped 'd' is used, mainly in final position, it is common for the loop to extend back over several of the preceding letters. |
 | Usage: Drily initial letters of lines tipped with red ink. |  | Usage: Pardoner 'd' in the display script of the scribe in the rubric. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: grace secretary tailed 'g'. The head of the right-hand stroke stands above the level of the left. |  | Usage: during 'g' in final position with trailing otiose tag extension. |
 | Usage: thing the 'ing' in this word is a correction. Is it by another scribe who uses a hooked form of 'g', whereas that graph is not in evidence in this manuscript? |  | Usage: Prologo one of the only hooked 'g's in the manuscript that has been found so far in the incipit to the Shipman's Tale. It may be a feature of the scribe's display hand. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: hir the limb of 'h' is short and compact. It either finishes on the line or just beneath. |  | Usage: This second letter after the upper case letter which begins the line. |
 | Usage: Hath upper case 'H' tipped with red ink. |  | Usage: half on the first folio of the manuscript with elaborate decorated border, the scribe employs many more hairline strokes. It is perhaps for this reason that almost every lower case 'h' on this folio has an extended hairline tail descending below the letter and turned to the right. The impact of these hairline strokes in the script complements the border decoration. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: riden frequent use of 'z'-shaped 'r' which alternates with modern 'r' and is used in all positions. The graph frequently has an otiose stroke attached descending from the lower left. |  | Usage: grace modern 'r' has a curved stem. The shoulder is joined by a hairline to the stem. |
 | Usage: lodesterre |  | Usage: verri double 'z'-shaped 'r'. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: is kidney-shaped 's' always used in final position, often with hairline stroke attached. |  | Usage: shede the shaft of long 's' is thick. The headstroke is usually finer than in the example shown here. |
 | Usage: So an upper case 'S' tipped with red. |  | Usage: Sic horned additions in the scribe's display script. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: write the regular lower case letter with looped head. |  | Usage: Whan at the beginning of a line so probably an upper case 'W' which is the same as the lower case letter. |
 | Usage: Wich an alternative cursive form of 'W' at the beginning of a line as the upper case graph. |  | Usage: whilom 'w' in the elongated letters of the display script which the scribe employs throughout the manuscript for the first line of tales and prologues. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: paciently most 'y's on this folio are dotted and have wavy tails. |  | Usage: my |
 | Usage: story on some folios, the tail of 'y' is much finer and gives the impression of another otiose stroke. |  | Usage: they an example taken from the first folio. Here the tail of 'y' becomes another hairline decorative stroke, as was remarked about the tail of 'h'. On the opening folio, the tails of 'y' are fine and loosely curved. There are few wavy tails in evidence, so a deliberate choice by the scribe. |
| Yogh | |||
 | Usage: Riȝt yogh is used infrequently. |  | Usage: niȝt |
 | Usage: ȝephirus yogh used for modern 'z'. | ||
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: Riȝt |  | Usage: Vnto |
 | Usage: Ne |  | Usage: Pardoner upper case 'P' with hooked addition at the head and at the lower part of what purports to be the lobe. |
| Long s and f | |||
 | Usage: muse |  | Usage: lodesterre |
 | Usage: for |  | Usage: of trailing otiose stroke from the 'f' in final position. |