Scribal Profile Hand B | |
| Profiles for this Scribe: | |
| Current Manuscript: | London, British Library MS Harley 7333 |
| Folios: | 25-32v, 57rv, 73rv, 134r, 157-164 |
| Sampled Folios: | 134r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: armes square-shaped single compartment 'a'. |  | Usage: Bellona 'a' in final position with horned head. |
 | Usage: At upper case 'A' with horizontal spread to the lower lobe and a loop at the head. |  | Usage: Alas |
| D | |||
 | Usage: drede a neatly-formed looped 'd' graph. |  | Usage: Honured 'd' in final position frequently has an exaggerated downward flourish. |
 | Usage: and the scribe also uses unlooped 'd' . |  | Usage: Devoured although not at the beginning of a line, this is the scribe's upper case 'D'. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: god secretary tailed 'g' with horizontal stroke across the head. |  | Usage: nogh sometimes the tail of 'g' curves back to the right. This is almost always the case in the 'gh' or 'ght' combination. |
 | Usage: begynnyng occasionally the tail of 'g' is very short indeed. |  | Usage: regyone |
| H | |||
 | Usage: what limb and tail-stroke of 'h' either neatly tucked away as here or turning counter-clockwise as in version 2. |  | Usage: englissh |
 | Usage: his 'h' with almost no tail stroke. |  | Usage: Hir upper case 'H' at the beginning of a line with tail-stroke extending far into the left margin. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: Arcite both long 'r' and modern 'r' are used by this scribe. |  | Usage: armes modern 'r' with stem which curls up to join the detached shoulder stroke. |
 | Usage: story 'z'-shaped 'r' is used after 'o'. |  | Usage: feirer 'r' in final position with long upward flourish. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: his a 6-shaped 's' is used in final position. |  | Usage: this sigma 's' with horizontal extension used occasionally in final position. |
 | Usage: passed the splayed aspect of 'ss'. |  | Usage: So |
| W | |||
 | Usage: which 'w' usually comprises two angled arms with single lobe to the right. Occasionally there is a short looping approach stroke. |  | Usage: with |
 | Usage: lawrier the scribe does have this variation with the two arms looped at the head. |  | Usage: Within yet another variation with the two arms billowing outwards to the left before curling back to close at the head. There is a B-shaped element to the right. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: my the tail of 'y' presents in a variety of ways. Here the tail descends at a 45 degree angle and there is no return. |  | Usage: fyre a wide curve on the tail of this 'y'. |
 | Usage: guy the tail of 'y' looped back up over the body of the letter. |  | Usage: Yong in initial position in the line. |
| Thorn | |||
 | Usage: þe the stem of thorn is a thick stroke. |  | Usage: þt the 't' of the superscript letter sits over the v-shaped space between stem and the beginning of the lobe. |
 | Usage: þ(er)e | ||