Scribal Profile Hand 2 | |
| Current Manuscript: | Cambridge, Magdalene College MS Pepys 2006 |
| Folios: | Part 2 ff 60-86 (pages 346-377) |
| Sampled Folios: | 376, 377r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: all the scribe's lower case 'a' stands above the level of surrounding letters making each 'a' seem like an upper case letter. |  | Usage: any image to show size of 'a'. |
 | Usage: that the scribe has a form of straight-sided 'a' which does not stand quite so high. The two 'a's seem to be used randomly. | ||
| D | |||
 | Usage: displese looped 'd' with square or triangular-shaped lower lobe. |  | Usage: saued 'd' in final position with ascending tag. |
 | Usage: Duchesse one of the upper case 'D's. |  | Usage: Dome |
| G | |||
 | Usage: grace anglicana doubel compartment 'g' with both compartments of a similar size. |  | Usage: kyng the letter is usually tilted to the right. Here in final position there is a curved descending tag attached to the horizontal slash. |
 | Usage: Giltes |  | Usage: Enditingg(es) abbreviation for the plural attached to double 'g'. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: heuen 'h' usually has a foot at the base of the stem. |  | Usage: seith crossed 'h' after 't' in final position. |
 | Usage: herkenen this could be an example of the scribe's upper case letter. The word is on the top line of text and although an upper case letter would not be expected for this word. The scribe has a tendency to mix upper and lower case throughout the text. | ||
| R | |||
 | Usage: herkenen long 'r' and modern 'r' alternate with no discernible pattern. |  | Usage: our modern 'r' in final position with flourish probably for a missing final 'e'. |
 | Usage: Remembraunce 'z'-shaped 'r' used mainly after 'o' but also after some consonants. |  | Usage: Remembraunce upper case 'R'. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: t(ra)nslaco(u)ns sigma 's' is used in initial and in final positions as shown here. |  | Usage: seint sigma 's' in initial position. |
 | Usage: Soule upper case 'S'. |  | Usage: Blessid long 's' is used in medial positions. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: Now the scribe's more conventional 'w'. |  | Usage: wherfor this complicated, interlaced loop form of 'w' is used most of the time. |
 | Usage: wt |  | Usage: will |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: pray the scribe's more usual type of 'y'. |  | Usage: ye however, the scribe frequently copies a 'y' with sharp right-angled turn at the end of the tail rather than the softer curve of the regular letter. |
 | Usage: Caunt(er)bury |  | Usage: many |
| e | |||
 | Usage: synne this 'e' used almost all the time by the scribe. |  | Usage: Boke occasionally the scribe uses this open 'e'. |
 | Usage: Reuoke circular 'e' is also in the scribe's repertoire. | ||
| i | |||
 | Usage: is the scribe uses this circle for the dot of 'i' several times on this folio. |  | Usage: thei where 'i' is the final letter as in this word, the circle for the dot of 'i' is joined to the letter. |
 | Usage: þinge |  | Usage: Gracias the 'i' in the scribe's formal script in 'Deo Gracias' at the end of the Retraction. |