Scribal Profile Hand 1 | |
| Current Manuscript: | Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 149 |
| Identification: | Unknown |
| Folios: | 1-24r (line fifteen) |
| Sampled Folios: | 17v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: all double compartment 'a' used throughout. |  | Usage: day |
 | Usage: Athenes the scribe's upper case letter. |  | Usage: A. benedicite |
| D | |||
 | Usage: day looped 'd' used throughout which varies little. |  | Usage: Inglond 'd' in final position sometimes attracts a tag. |
 | Usage: shuldres 'd' so squashed that it appears to be a round 'e'. |  | Usage: armed |
| G | |||
 | Usage: biganne double compartment 'g' looking very much like the number '8'. |  | Usage: legges |
 | Usage: returnyng(e) the scribe uses the same abbreviative mark for the plural 'es'. |  | Usage: knyght(is) |
| H | |||
 | Usage: hire a thick limb which curves in this example but is frequently straight. |  | Usage: wight 'h' is sometimes crossed in the 'ght' combination. |
 | Usage: loueth 'h' is also crossed after 't'. |  | Usage: Eu(er)iche the sequence of the scribe's strokes are visible in this example. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: returnyng long 'r' is used the majority of the time. |  | Usage: approchid modern 'r' is used occasionally. |
 | Usage: her long 'r' with flourish probably to replace a missing final 'e'. |  | Usage: there example to show the angle of 'r' which gives a forward impetus to the hand. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: knytis sigma 's' always used in final position. Very occasionally it is used initially (see version 4). |  | Usage: sikerly long 's' almost always used in initial position and always medially. |
 | Usage: Some upper case 'S' at the beginning of a line. |  | Usage: stele sigma 's' in initial position. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: werre 'w' may be as in this example with a single lobe to the right of the graph, or as in the other examples, with a 'B'-shaped element at the right. |  | Usage: wight |
 | Usage: wente some 'w's have loops to begin which are almost horizontal. |  | Usage: with |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: you most of the scribe's 'y's have an extended horizontal tail. |  | Usage: Cheualry |
 | Usage: knyght |  | Usage: many one |
| Thorn | |||
 | Usage: þat thorn is used occasionally but each of these words is also written with 'th' rather than thorn. |  | Usage: þei |
 | Usage: þe |  | Usage: þat |