Scribal Profile Rylands English 63 Scribe | |
| Profiles for this Scribe: | 2. USA, Philadelphia, Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1084/2 |
| Current Manuscript: | USA, Philadelphia, PA, Rosenbach Museum & Library MS 1084/2 |
| Folios: | 01-Nov |
| Sampled Folios: | ii |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: harry straight-sided 'a' with horizontal cross-bar is used throughout. |  | Usage: And |
 | Usage: And a rather strange shape for the lobe of upper case 'A' in the rubric. | ||
| D | |||
 | Usage: departyn angular lower lobe of looped 'd'. The looped head is about the same size as the lobe. |  | Usage: depart a triangular shape for the lower lobe. |
 | Usage: endith unlooped 'd' is used in the rubric. |  | Usage: And the scribe has an individual style for some upper case letters. Here the 'D' is a slight variant as version 3 of Letter 1 (a) is similarly variant. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: Though tailed 'g' with very angular lobe. |  | Usage: fflemyng 'g' in final position and tagged. |
 | Usage: begynnyth the scribe appears to enjoy adding curving swirls in his display script. See also Letter 4 version 4. | ||
| H | |||
 | Usage: wroth 'h' often has an open head and a gently curving limb and tail-stroke which is usually contained beneath the graph. |  | Usage: hostelerie sometimes there is a foot at the base of the stem. |
 | Usage: his |  | Usage: Here very elaborate upper case 'H' in the scribe's display script. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: departyn long 'r' is used throughout. |  | Usage: ther 'r' with upward flourish in final position. |
 | Usage: prollog modern 'r' is used for the rubric. | ||
| S | |||
 | Usage: wis kidney-shaped 's' used in final position. |  | Usage: shul sigma 's' used in initial position. |
 | Usage: his a 6-shaped 's' in the scribe's display script. | ||
| W | |||
 | Usage: wroth rounded form of 'w' with looped head. |  | Usage: wol |
 | Usage: we | ||
| Y | |||
 | Usage: harry the left limb of 'y' descends vertically. |  | Usage: yit |
 | Usage: begynnyth another convoluted looping of a tailed graph. | ||
| Thorn and Yogh | |||
 | Usage: þowe thorn is used occasionally on the folio examined. |  | Usage: þe |
 | Usage: lowȝe only one occurrence of yogh on the folio examined. | ||
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: Thogh |  | Usage: But |
 | Usage: Of | ||