Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 851 |
| Sampled Folios: | 128v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: alle double compartment anglicana 'a' is used throughout. |  | Usage: can 'a' often stands above the level of surrounding graphs. |
 | Usage: Aut this upper case 'A' is used a few times on this folio. |  | Usage: Ac this double compartment 'A' is the one most frequently used for the upper case letter on this folio. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: dore 'd' is looped with a loop that usually resolves on the lower part of the lobe rather than copleting a complete loop. |  | Usage: haued |
 | Usage: fledde |  | Usage: Drede upper case 'D' at the beginning of a line. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: gurdeth 'g' is always a double compartment letter on this folio. |  | Usage: kyng all final 'g's on this folio have a looped extension to finish. Such an addition might be taken as an 'es' abbreviation, but this is clearly not the case here. |
 | Usage: bryngeth sometimes the lower compartment of 'g' does not connect back to the upper compartment. |  | Usage: ryght the 'ght' combination. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: hym the scribe's regular lower case 'h'. |  | Usage: hath |
 | Usage: chyrche two examples of the scribe's 'ch' combination in this word. |  | Usage: How upper case 'H' at the beginning of a line. It does not differ from the lower case graph. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: ryght long 'r' is used throughout except after 'o' and round-bodied graphs. |  | Usage: neuer 'r' in final position with flourish perhaps for missing final 'e'? |
 | Usage: mempryse 'z'-shaped 'r' is used after 'o' and other round-bodied graphs. |  | Usage: freres |
| S | |||
 | Usage: schyres sigma 's' is used in initial and final positions. |  | Usage: konstables sigma 's' in final position. |
 | Usage: falsenesse long 's' is used in medial positions. |  | Usage: Symonye the upper case graph is just an enlarged version of the lower case one. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: wyped 'w' in initial position. The scribe's 'w', wherever they occur in a word are always much bigger than surrounding graphs. |  | Usage: thow 'w' in final position. |
 | Usage: wt the scribe frequently uses the shortened form of 'with'. |  | Usage: Woschen 'W' is upper case because of its position at the beginning of a line. There is no difference at all between the upper and lower case graphs. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: yftes 'y' in initial position. The tail of 'y' is often a straight line set at a forty-five degree angle from the body of the graph. |  | Usage: mony 'y' in final position. |
 | Usage: pylory 'y' is often dotted. The tail-stroke varies from a straight line to the strange configuration of the second 'y' in this example. |  | Usage: Y 'Y' in initial position in a line. The graph is the same whether lower case or a possible upper case version as here. |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: That upper case 'T'. |  | Usage: P(er)ayled |
 | Usage: But |  | Usage: ffreres |