Scribal Profile De Regimine Scribe | |
| Profiles for this Scribe: | |
| Current Manuscript: | Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 735 |
| Folios: | 1-134 |
| Sampled Folios: | 108r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: atteineth the scribe alternates this secretary letter with the oversized anglicana version seen in the next example. |  | Usage: man |
 | Usage: And the scribe's upper case 'A' bisected by the brown ink frame line. |  | Usage: alway |
| D | |||
 | Usage: done lower case 'd' is looped and shows little variation. |  | Usage: mevid 'd' in final position with tag. |
 | Usage: dayes |  | Usage: dauid |
| G | |||
 | Usage: diligence |  | Usage: wrong 'g' with flourish perhaps representative of missing 'e', although the scribe has a propensity to attach such a flourish to final 't', 'n', 'm' and 'r'. |
 | Usage: god the impression of this scribal hand is of one copying in haste. The lower compartment does not connect with the upper. |  | Usage: Gera upper case 'G' |
| H | |||
 | Usage: hert |  | Usage: peyneth in the combinations 'ch', 'th' and 'ght', 'h' is always crossed. |
 | Usage: brought here the backward flourish from 't' acts as the cross for the 'h'. |  | Usage: Her the tail-stroke of 'H' continues well into the margin. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: restreyneth long 'r' is used in all positions. |  | Usage: for 'z'-shaped 'r' used after 'o' but not on every occasion. See version 3 below. |
 | Usage: for long 'r' in final position with flourish. |  | Usage: GRegory the 'R' comes after the pen-flourished capital. It may or may not be an upper case letter. In this scribal hand it is difficult to tell. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: as kidney-shaped 's' used in final position always with a vertical descending tag attached. |  | Usage: suffraunce long 's' used inially and medially. Sometimes, as here, there is a short stroke from the middle of the descender which joins to the next graph. |
 | Usage: dissese although the 's' graph on the left is much shorter than the one on the right, they both end at the same level beneath the line. |  | Usage: Sone |
| W | |||
 | Usage: Now the scribe's 'w' graph is consistently formed with the top of the middle limb arched back to join the left. |  | Usage: way |
 | Usage: worthines there is always a 'B'-shaped element to the right. |  | Usage: Whos the upper case graph is formed in the same way as the lower case one. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: verrey the tail of 'y' can be almost a straight line as here, with just a slight turn at the end. |  | Usage: way |
 | Usage: dayes the tail here is a gentle curve. |  | Usage: mych the tail of 'y' can also have a much longer right extension. |
| Thorn and Yogh | |||
 | Usage: þt thorn is frequently used with a superscript abbreviation. |  | Usage: þe the scribe's thorn looks much more like a 'y' than his 'y' does. Thorn is also used for the present tense singular verb endings. |
 | Usage: Ȝaff yogh used as equivalent to 'y' and to 'gh' occasionally. |  | Usage: ȝet |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: And the fussiness of the scribe's hand is well illustrated by his messy upper case graphs. |  | Usage: Now |
 | Usage: The |  | Usage: Socrates |
| More Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: Is |  | Usage: Off |
 | Usage: But |  | Usage: Let |
| Penwork | |||
 | Usage: The paragraph marks which may have been added by the scribe himself are worthy of notice. |  | Usage: The paraphs in either blue or red mark the beginning of each stanza and are attached to horizontal red lines which also divide the stanzas. |
 | Usage: The penwork flourished initial 'G'. |  | Usage: The blue wavy line which acts as a marker for the red ink Latin glosses in the hand of the scribe which are copied into the right margin in blocks. |