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Late Medieval English Scribes is an online catalogue of all scribal hands (identified or unidentified) which appear in the manuscripts of the English writings of five major Middle English authors: Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, John Trevisa, William Langland and Thomas Hoccleve.

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422 manuscript descriptions
528 scribal profiles
17468 images of letter forms
451 images of manuscript pages
Your randomly chosen scribe is:
Hand A from Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Fairfax 3

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Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, King's Manor, York YO1 7EP