Scribal Profile Hand 2 | |
| Current Manuscript: | London, British Library MS Additional 5140 |
| Folios: | 229r-425r |
| Sampled Folios: | 229r, 359v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: a single compartment secretary 'a' used for the lower case letter . |  | Usage: And double compartment 'A' used as upper case for beginnings of lines and for new sentences or phrases. |
 | Usage: And upper case 'A' used at the beginning of a line. |  | Usage: narraciones display script 'a' for the Explicit at the end of the Retraction. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: sounden the scribe uses looped 'd' and double compartment 'g' but aprt from these graphs, the script is basically a secretary script. |  | Usage: daye the lower lobe is usually pointed at the left side. |
 | Usage: Drawe upper case 'D' used at the beginning of a line. |  | Usage: deus 'd' in display script of scribe. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: long all 'g's on f229 are double compartment.. |  | Usage: legendis the scribe appears to have two forms of 'g' each of which he seems to employ exclusively on a single folio. On f359v he only uses this rounder form with long oval lower compartment. |
 | Usage: God | ||
| H | |||
 | Usage: host triangular head-loop and limb and tail-stroke looping round clockwise to resolve back to the base of the stem. |  | Usage: hevyn most 'h's on f359v are as in this example with shorter tail stroke and a tighter formation. |
 | Usage: such crossed 'h' when 'h' is in final position after 'c'. |  | Usage: bouht an example of crossed 'h' from f359v. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: Drawe long 'r' is frequently used on f229. |  | Usage: oure modern 'r' used more frequently on f359v although long 'r' is still in evidence. |
 | Usage: more 'z'-shaped 'r' used on both folios but more in evidence on f359v. |  | Usage: yeer long 'r' with flourish perhaps for a missing final 'e'. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: d(omi)n(u)s sigma 's' used both initially and finally on f229. No other lower case 's' can be seen. Long 's' is used within words. |  | Usage: Omelies this kidney-shaped 's' is used in final positions on f359v. Long 's' is used in initial positions. |
 | Usage: Seyntes the scribe's upper case letter. |  | Usage: Rectoris the display script of the scribe. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: felows 'w' formed as two 'v's. |  | Usage: were looped heads and single lobe to the right. |
 | Usage: wyves |  | Usage: Who 'W' in upper case position at the beginning of a line. It does not differ from the lower case version. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: mannys the curve of the tail-stroke is wide with a thicker line on the curve as the scribe turns the nib. |  | Usage: Seyntes |
 | Usage: hevyn sometimes the tail of 'y' is cut short. |  | Usage: yeer |
| I | |||
 | Usage: Iape upper case 'I' on f229. |  | Usage: Ihu upper case 'I' used on f359v. There are differences between the 'I' used on the earlier folios and the 'I' used later. |