Scribal Profile John Duxworth | |
| Profiles for this Scribe: | 1. Europe, Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Anglais 39 |
| Current Manuscript: | Europe, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale MS Fonds Anglais 39 |
| Folios: | 1-84 |
| Sampled Folios: | 1r, 16r, 57r, 83v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: palamon single compartment 'a' used throughout. |  | Usage: A the scribe has several versions of upper case 'A'. |
 | Usage: Alisaundre |  | Usage: narrat this horned 'a' occurs in the Latin incipit for the Squire's Tale. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: declare angular lobe for looped 'd'. |  | Usage: land few 'd's have tails. This one occurs at the the end of a line and is just a continuation of the loop. |
 | Usage: Duxworth the scribe's name. |  | Usage: hadde |
| G | |||
 | Usage: yong tailed 'g' shown here with previous letter to show the angle at which 'g' is usually copied. |  | Usage: knyght |
 | Usage: lengthe a hooked end to the tail of 'g'. |  | Usage: sege again, the angle of 'g' in this word is significant of this scribe. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: nouthir the stem is short and the head stroke arches over beyond the shoulder of the graph. |  | Usage: Inough crossed 'h' to follow 'g'. |
 | Usage: prohemium written in the scribe's display script used for the explicit. |  | Usage: honour the graph appears out of proportion with the long looping tail and short stem. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: neuyr modern 'r' and 'z'-shaped 'r' used throughout. |  | Usage: flaundres |
 | Usage: corrupcyon showing the combination of the scribe's two 'r' graphs. |  | Usage: Rebelle |
| S | |||
 | Usage: his kidney 's' always used in final position. |  | Usage: as a sort of hybrid letter half way between the kidney shape and the 8-shaped version. |
 | Usage: strengthe long 's' used initially and nedially. |  | Usage: Sumtyme |
| W | |||
 | Usage: wel double 'v' form of 'w' with single lobe on right side. |  | Usage: Whan the upper case letter is exactly the same as the lower case one. |
 | Usage: When also an upper case letter. |  | Usage: yow |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: pullyd the tail of 'y' is generally quite straight with no return stroke. |  | Usage: techyth |
 | Usage: yif |  | Usage: why 'y' at the end of a line with tail that extends up to the height of the top of the letter. |
| Thorn and Yogh | |||
 | Usage: þe very occasional use of thorn. |  | Usage: þu |
 | Usage: tauȝt very occasional use of yogh. |  | Usage: strondeȝ use of yogh for 'z' sound of the plural. |