Scribal Profile Beryn Scribe | |
| Profiles for this Scribe: | 3. London, British Library, MS Harley 2248 |
| Current Manuscript: | London, British Library, MS Harley 2248 |
| Sampled Folios: | 12r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: had straight-sided 'a' with horizontal cross-bar. |  | Usage: name note that the 'a' illustrated here is the second letter of the word. It is a characteristic feature of the Beryn scribe occasionally to capitalise 'a's within a word. |
 | Usage: Armog(er)e the scribe uses upper case 'A's with several different shapes for the lower lobe. This one has a pointed element on the left side. Although not always the case, the scribe also tends to capitalise 'a's which occur as the first letter of a word. |  | Usage: 'aftirward (second 'a') the hairline connector to close the upper compartment may or may not be there. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: dede two shapes for the bowl of 'd', one more pointed than the other, perhaps reflecting its position at the beginning of a word. |  | Usage: held tagged 'd' in final position. |
 | Usage: callid the loop of 'd' often etxends back beyond the lower lobe. |  | Usage: weddit a simpler secretary 'd' which occurs as part of the scribe's display script in his title. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: good the lower lobe of 'g' is larger than the upper lobe with hairline stroke connecting back to upper lobe. |  | Usage: kynge secretary 'g' used more frequently than anglicana 'g', sometimes, as here with reverse flick on the tail-stroke. |
 | Usage: tong anglicana 'g' in final position with horizontal slash and vertical tag. |  | Usage: Glaudius the scribe appears to have misread the name 'Claudius' for the Emperor. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: he 'h' with looped head and neatly contained tail-stroke beneath the body of the graph. |  | Usage: when a clear linking of the tail-stroke of 'h' with the next letter. |
 | Usage: hede on this folio the scribe rarely turns the tail-stroke of 'h' to the right. I can only find a couple of examples though there may be more. | ||
| R | |||
 | Usage: ther long 'r' and modern 'r' are used throughout the text with no discernible pattern. This example shows 'r' with flourish in final position. |  | Usage: broþir modern 'r' with tag occurring at the end of a word. |
 | Usage: pursued 'z'-shaped 'r' is more likely to occur after vowels but also after some consonants. |  | Usage: Romeyns |
| S | |||
 | Usage: his sigma 's' used almost exclusively in final position. Used also in initial position as well as long 's'. |  | Usage: his a very rare example on this folio of kidney 's' in final position. |
 | Usage: suche long 's' used initially and in medial position. The shaft of long 's' is usually quite thick. |  | Usage: Southampton the scribe's upper case 'S'. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: was the approach stroke to 'w' varies in size from a small tag at the top of the left limb to the full-blown looped example seen in version 2. |  | Usage: town despite being in the middle of a word, the scribe has included an elaborate loop on the left arm of the letter. The height of the initial stroke is twice the height of the preceding graph. |
 | Usage: When the scribe's upper case 'W' which follows the pattern of the previous lower case ones. |  | Usage: hewe a 'w' of a different kind with no approach stroke and no double lobe on the right limb. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: Romeyns versions 1-4 of 'y' shows the scribe's variation in the length and angle of the tail of 'y'. |  | Usage: worthly |
 | Usage: kynge |  | Usage: wyfe |
| Thorn and Yogh | |||
 | Usage: þey thorn used mainly for definite articles, pronouns and demonstrative adjectives. |  | Usage: broþir used here as replacement for 'th'. |
 | Usage: sauȝte yogh has a distinctive shape with long tail. |  | Usage: fiȝte |