Scribal Profile Hand 2 | |
| Current Manuscript: | Oxford, University College MS 45 |
| Sampled Folios: | 32r |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: an as with the first scribe in this manuscript, this second scribe also uses a mixture of anglicana and secretary forms. |  | Usage: as only very occasional use of single compartment 'a'. |
 | Usage: enfrata both forms in the same word. |  | Usage: And |
| D | |||
 | Usage: defoulen 'd' is looped with small bowl and exaggerated loop. |  | Usage: bold |
 | Usage: keddemen |  | Usage: suffrede 'd' in ligature with 'e'. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: glorie 'g' is double compartment with lower compartment sometimes flattened to a triangular shape and sometimes rounded as in version 2. |  | Usage: clergye |
 | Usage: gorge |  | Usage: God the upper case graph. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: han 'h' with looped head and curving limb and tail-stroke. |  | Usage: Swich after 'c' and 't', 'h' is sometimes but not always crossed. |
 | Usage: feyth |  | Usage: hound on the top line the head-stroke is an angular hook. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: ryche again a random mixture of long 'r' and modern 'r' by this scribe. On this folio, long 'r' is always in initial position and sometimes in final position. |  | Usage: fader modern 'r' is used in medial and final positions on this folio. |
Usage: lord 'z'-shaped 'r' is used after 'o'. Otiose stroke descends almost vertically from the lower left. |  | Usage: her(e) flourished long 'r' in final position. | |
| S | |||
 | Usage: sauter sigma 's' is used in initial and final positions. |  | Usage: meteles |
 | Usage: seek long 's' is used occasionally in initial position and always in medial position. |  | Usage: fantasies |
| W | |||
 | Usage: wille anglicana looped 'w' is used at all times. |  | Usage: now the head-loops are almost always closed. |
 | Usage: wete |  | Usage: Why upper case graph at the beginning of a line with foot to the left limb. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: ryche 'y' and thorn are frequently indistinguishable. |  | Usage: maystres |
 | Usage: clergye |  | Usage: faytoures |
| Thorn | |||
 | Usage: Þat the scribe has two forms of thorn, one which is the same as 'y' and a second which is more like a usual thorn graph. |  | Usage: þese |
 | Usage: mowþ |  | Usage: þe |
| Yogh and Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: myȝte there is only a single yogh on this folio. |  | Usage: Lytil |
 | Usage: Ne |  | Usage: To |