Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C.86 |
| Identification: | Copies Legend of Good Women |
| Folios: | 91r-127v |
| Sampled Folios: | 114r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: walkyd the scribe has a simple secretary graph of 'a'. |  | Usage: arowed he also uses a more complicated horned version more akin to his upper case rendition. |
 | Usage: Any upper case 'A' with long, thick approach stroke which intrudes into the space for the next line. |  | Usage: A the initial letter of the folio which also demonstrates the exaggerated approach stroke to the graph. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: made as with 'a' the scribe has a number of distinctive variations for the 'd' graph. Looped 'd' seen here usually sports an extended tail (as in version 2) when it is the final letter of a word. |  | Usage: hand a more angular version of the lower lobe. |
 | Usage: quod unlooped 'd' is also used frequently. |  | Usage: goddesse the two versions side by side. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: Region tailed 'g' graph seen here with following 'i'. |  | Usage: Region a rounder version of the same graph. |
 | Usage: goddesse for most of the scribe's graphs he seems to alternate between rounded and spikey formations. | ||
| H | |||
 | Usage: hand a fairly conventional graph compared with others of this scribe! In this example the head is open. |  | Usage: she a loop at the top of the stem and a tail extending clockwise from curved limb to form a loop. |
 | Usage: dight on two occasions on this folio where 'h' is in a 'th' or 'ght' combination, the scribe adds a curving stroke above the combined letters. |  | Usage: thynkyth the addition of a curving stroke above the combination 'th'. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: hir modern 'r' is rarely used, but here in final position, it has a flourish.. |  | Usage: grett 'z'-shaped 'r' is used in all positions. |
 | Usage: Region upper case 'R' with dramatic approach stroke beginning above the graph. |  | Usage: for 'z'-shaped 'r' in final position with otiose hairline extension. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: goddesse long 's' is used initially and in medial position. |  | Usage: was a really neat version of the scribe's horned kidney 's'. |
 | Usage: ellys presumably the scribe's version of sigma 's' in final position. This graph can get totally out of hand and produces confusion when the upward extension intrudes on letters above. |  | Usage: arowes a more confused example of version 2. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: Bow |  | Usage: woo occasionally the graph has a long approach stroke which is vertical. |
 | Usage: Wt upper case 'W' at the beginning of a line. |  | Usage: wiff |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: kney as with most other graphs of this scribe, the tails of 'y' show a good deal of variation. |  | Usage: fayrest |
 | Usage: wyde |  | Usage: truly 'y' with competition from the ascending stroke from sigma 's' on the line below. |
| Upper case oddities | |||
 | Usage: This |  | Usage: Bow |
 | Usage: Eneas |  | Usage: Nay upper case 'N' with descender of 'I' from the line above bisecting the graph. |