Scribal Profile Hand 2 | |
| Current Manuscript: | USA, San Marino, CA, Henry E. Huntington Library MS HM 143 |
| Folios: | 1-108 |
| Sampled Folios: | 10v, 63v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: and the upper compartment of the scribe's double compartment 'a' is consistently larger than the lower. |  | Usage: awakede |
 | Usage: And |  | Usage: Ac 'A', whether upper or lower compartment is really consistently formed. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: dayes looped 'd' is used throughout. |  | Usage: and the lower compartment is generally rounded or oval. |
 | Usage: wedde the upper loops are generally triangular in appearance. |  | Usage: deserueth |
| G | |||
 | Usage: gultes as with the 'a' graph, the double compartment 'g' has a larger upper compartment. |  | Usage: kyng 'g' in final position with a hairline triangle added to the horizontal extension. |
 | Usage: god the lower compartment of 'g' is occasionally left open. |  | Usage: Genteliche |
| H | |||
 | Usage: helden 'h' generally has a triangular looped head and a limb which does not extend much below the base of the stem. The tail-stroke when added is generally fine and may curve either clockwise beneath the graph or may turn counter-clockwise and return to the line. |  | Usage: licketh tail-stroke turning counter-clockwise. |
 | Usage: brouhte |  | Usage: harmed tail-stroke looping round in a clockwise direction and returning to the base of the stem. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: reste long 'r' and 'z'-shaped 'r' are both used. The stem of 'r' is thick with fine approach stroke where 'r' is the initial graph. |  | Usage: Westmynstr(e) 'r' in final position with flourish perhaps for the missing 'e'. |
 | Usage: thorw 'z'-shaped 'r' with the otiose stroke unusually descending from the bottom right corner of the graph. |  | Usage: Redeles |
| S | |||
 | Usage: sayde sigma 's' is used in both initial and final positions. |  | Usage: appeles sigma 's' in final position with attached vertical tag. |
 | Usage: Iustices the head of long 's' is ligatured with the following 't'. |  | Usage: Symonye |
| W | |||
 | Usage: when 'w' has looped head, often a shallow foot at the base of the limbs and the 'B'-shaped element to the right. |  | Usage: thorw |
 | Usage: worth the left limb is entirely separate from the rest of the graph. |  | Usage: wissen |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: fayre almost all 'y's are dotted. The dot may be separate or it may be the final point at the end of the tail. |  | Usage: my the tail often turns counter-clockwise immediately beneath the body of the graph. |
 | Usage: by |  | Usage: yholde |
| Thorn and Yogh | |||
 | Usage: þe thorn is used mainly for abbreviations of 'the' and 'that'. The stem of thorn is often at a slant. The stem is thick. |  | Usage: þat |
 | Usage: ȝere yogh is also used by the scribe. |  | Usage: aȝens |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: Passus |  | Usage: Took |
 | Usage: Boure |  | Usage: ANd |
| Penwork Decoration | |||
 | Usage: Decoration of pen-flourished 'N'. |  | Usage: Faces at the end of the flourishing. |
 | Usage: Pen flourishing on 'A'. | ||