Scribal Profile Hand 1 | |
| Current Manuscript: | England, Longleat House, Marquess of Bath MS 29, part 2 |
| Folios: | 81r-128r (Parson's Tale) |
| Sampled Folios: | 81r, 96v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: pathes double compartment 'a' used throughout. |  | Usage: nat |
 | Usage: And upper case 'A'. |  | Usage: Arrogance upper case 'A' with red paraph to the left. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: god 'd' is looped. The lower lobe may be round, oval or more pointed as in version 2. |  | Usage: despite a triangular lobe and loop which arches back over previous graphs. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: thynge a rounded 8-shaped 'g' with both compartments of roughly equal size. |  | Usage: twigges |
 | Usage: Glotony |  | Usage: twigg(es) 'g' with flat head and abbreviative mark for a plural element. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: harmes 'h' has a triangular head-loop. |  | Usage: hy(m) a rare example of the tail-stroke of the scribe's 'h' turning to the right rather than being tucked under. |
 | Usage: hit a higher ascender than usual for the top line of the text. | ||
| R | |||
 | Usage: spryngen long 'r' used most of the time. |  | Usage: pride 'z'-shaped 'r' used after round graphs. |
 | Usage: Our 'r' in final position with flourish. |  | Usage: gabber modern 'r' used rarely. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: man(er)es kidney-shaped 's' used in final position. |  | Usage: syn(n)ys sigma 's' used in initial and also final position. |
 | Usage: shrifte long 's' is used both initially and medially. The shaft can be longer or shorter dependant on the following letter. There is sometimes a small bifurcation at the top of the shaft. |  | Usage: Stryf |
| W | |||
 | Usage: Now loop-headed 'w' with 'b'-shaped element to the right. |  | Usage: twigges |
 | Usage: which the central loop of 'w' stands proud of the elements to either side. |  | Usage: What upper case 'W' from the gloss in the right margin of this folio. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: syn the tail of 'y' is uniformly a much finer stroke than those used for the body of the graph. |  | Usage: þynge |
 | Usage: heuyn |  | Usage: Ypocrisy this may be the scribe's upper case letter preceded by a red paraph. |
| Thorn | |||
 | Usage: þe(superscript thorn is used frequently. Superscript letters sit in the fork at the top of the graph created between stem and lobe of thorn. |  | Usage: oþ(er) |
 | Usage: þogh an approach stroke and angled beginning to the stem of thorn. |  | Usage: þynges the lobe of thorn is oval. |
| Punctuation Marks | |||
 | Usage: A mark similar to a semi-colon is used frequently by the scribe. Here it occurs at the end of a phrase. |  | Usage: fal this mark occurs after the final word of the folio at the end of a phrase. |
 | Usage: The mark occurs here in a position where a modern semi-colon might be used. |  | Usage: Occurs after the word 'done'. An ampersand follows to lead in to the next phrase. |
| Yogh | |||
 | Usage: ȝe |  | Usage: noȝt |
 | Usage: noȝt | ||
| Ampersand | |||
 | Usage: A 'z'-shaped ampersand with vertical stroke descending from the starting point of the graph. |  | Usage: |
 | Usage: A rare use of ampersand with stroke above. |  | Usage: |