Scribal Profile Hand 1 | |
| Current Manuscript: | Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 163 |
| Folios: | 1-9, 16-19, 29, 59v-113v |
| Sampled Folios: | 9r, 92v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: makith the majority of this scribe's lower case 'a' graphs are variations on this form with horned head-stroke. |  | Usage: aboue occasionally the scribe has a simpler form of secretary 'a' closed at the head with a hairline. |
 | Usage: And the scribe's upper case 'A's are double compartment with angular lower lobe. |  | Usage: As a different form of upper case 'A'. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: dystresse the scribe uses both looped and unlooped 'd' generally in about equal proportions. |  | Usage: do an angular unlooped 'd'. |
 | Usage: payed 'd' in final position. The stroke which closes the loop continues to become a thick curving stroke which descends well below the graph before curving upwards. |  | Usage: hadde |
| G | |||
 | Usage: glad most of the scribe's 'g' graphs are secretary forms with horned head and horizontal cross-stroke and a tail which turns counter-clockwise to finish. |  | Usage: doghter |
 | Usage: Greuaunces |  | Usage: grace occasionally the scribe has a simpler form of tailed 'g' with short tapering stroke for the tail and no return. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: whetstone the head-stroke of 'h' may be looped or open. Here the head-stroke arches over the following graph. |  | Usage: Eche the head-loop rests on the shoulder. |
 | Usage: semeth where 'th' are together, 'h' is nearly always crossed. The cross-stroke runs horizontally above the 'th'. |  | Usage: Hyr upper case letter at the beginning of a line. The thick stem-stroke begins only just above the level of the shoulder. The head-stroke forms a wide inverted 'V' above two graphs. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: more 'z'-shaped 'r' is used in all positions. |  | Usage: right 'z'-shaped 'r' used here in initial position. |
 | Usage: Remedi upper case 'R' seen here with following 'e' which makes use of the extension from 'R' as its first element. | ||
| S | |||
 | Usage: toolis kidney-shaped 's' is always used in final position. |  | Usage: so long 's' is used in initial and medial positions. |
 | Usage: Syn upper case 'S' with vertical slash bisecting the graph, extending both above and below. |  | Usage: stonden 'st' ligature always appears as here. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: whyte there is little variation in the 'w' graph. |  | Usage: Now the small, oval single lobe on the right side is a typical feature. |
 | Usage: Wyl upper case letter formed in exactly the same way. The descender from 'F' in the line above bisects the left arm of the graph. | ||
| Y | |||
 | Usage: yet the 'y' graph has a vertical left limb and an exaggerated curve to its tail. |  | Usage: may |
 | Usage: Yf 'Y' at the beginning of a line. | ||
| Oddities | |||
 | Usage: But upper case 'B' is a strange graph. |  | Usage: place lower case 'p' appears to be formed from a single stroke beginning at the upper left then looping round to descend in a tapering stroke. |
 | Usage: That upper case 'T' looks rather messy. |  | Usage: Pandar and a strangely-formed upper case 'P'. |