Scribal Profile Adam Pinkhurst | |
| Profiles for this Scribe: | 5. London, Guildhall Library 5370 [Scriveners' Company Common Paper] |
| Current Manuscript: | London, Guildhall Library MS 5370 |
| Folios: | Page 56 |
| Sampled Folios: | Page 56 |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: sciencia almost all lower case 'a's in this oath are the secretary form of 'a'. |  | Usage: artis there are about half a dozen examples of double compartment anglicana 'a' in Pinkhurst's oath. |
 | Usage: Adam the second 'a' in Pinkhurst's name at the side of his oath. |  | Usage: Ac a more typical Pinkhurst 'A'. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: indigencia |  | Usage: saluand |
 | Usage: Adam the 'd' in Adam's name at the side of his oath. Note the parallel lines on the curved stroke joining 'd' to 'a'. | ||
| G | |||
 | Usage: indignus |  | Usage: pagina(m) |
 | Usage: gent(es) 'g' in initial position. | ||
| H | |||
 | Usage: huismodi slight lean for the stem. |  | Usage: hanc |
 | Usage: honore |  | Usage: Pynkhurst Adam's name on the top line of the oath. The 'k' and 'h' are typical of Adam's treatment of ascenders on the top line of text. His mark is attached to the descending head-stroke of 'h'. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: rep(ar)tus long 'r' is used in all positions in this oath. It alternates with modern 'r' as in version 2. |  | Usage: Iuramentum modern 'r' is also used in all positions. |
 | Usage: corporale typical of Adam's hand, 'z'-shaped 'r' is sometimes seen with descending stroke from the left corner of the letter, or it may be copied without the addition of the stroke. Both may be seen in this example. |  | Usage: futur a flourish on 'r' in final position is found frequently in Adam's literary output. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: alias sigma 's' used both at the beginning and ends of words. |  | Usage: coactus kidney-shaped 's' used occasionally in final position. |
 | Usage: indignus 8-shaped 's' in final position. This 's' predominates in final position despite occasional use of versions 1 and 2. Note that the head of the letter is slightly above the level of the preceding 'u'. |  | Usage: sciencia long 's' used initially and medially. |
| W | |||
| Y | |||
 | Usage: Pynkhurst 'y' in Adam's name on the top line of text. The 'y' is dotted. |  | Usage: Pynkhurst the only other 'y' in the oath, also in Pynkhurst's name, is found at the left of the oath and given slightly more elaborate treatment. |
| Pynkhurst characteristics | |||
 | Usage: Adam the upper case 'A' at the beginning of his name within the oath itself. The typical Pinkhurst mark is attached to the top of the letter. |  | Usage: Adam the elaborate 'A' of Adam set to the left of the oath and typifying many of the characteristic features of Pynhurst's hand. The 'barbed wire' decoration is there, the parallel decorative lines and the Pynkhurst 'signature' at the top of the letter. |
 | Usage: Et the decoration rising from the top of the first letter 'E' of the oath. |  | Usage: Scriptor on the top line of the oath the upper case 'S' with decorated rising ascender is familiar from both the Hengwrt and Ellesmere Chaucers. |
| Further Pynkhurst characteristic features | |||
 | Usage: L(ett)re Curial(is) here the treatment of ascenders on the top line is typical. |  | Usage: Decoration in the bracket feature |
 | Usage: Decoration in the bracket feature |  | Usage: Pynkhurst 'barbed wire' in-fill in the letters 'k' and 'h' in Pynkhurst's name to the left of his oath. |