Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 393, part I |
| Folios: | 96 |
| Sampled Folios: | 96r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: that single compartment 'a' is used. |  | Usage: All the most usual form of upper case 'A' which is just an enlargement of the lower case letter form. |
 | Usage: And a second version of upper case 'A'. |  | Usage: Arnulla the first word on the folio hence the rather flamboyant triangular 'A'. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: degrees both looped and unlooped 'd' are present on this folio. |  | Usage: syde |
 | Usage: dayes very pointed lower lobe with hairline back to the joining of loop and lobe. |  | Usage: And |
| G | |||
 | Usage: degrees tailed secretary 'g' is used throughout. |  | Usage: meuyng final 'g' with flourish. |
 | Usage: right 'gh' combination with cross-bar at the head of 'g' continuing through to the head loop of 'h'. | ||
| H | |||
 | Usage: the the head-loop rests on the shoulder. |  | Usage: night the 'ght' combination. When 'h' is crossed, the line often runs across the top of the letter. |
 | Usage: which |  | Usage: honde an example which occurs on the top line where more space above might encourage the open head stroke. The letter is also written at a slight angle. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: ryng the 'z'-shaped 'r' is almost always used initially and medially. Very rarely used in final position. Although the next three versions of 'r' represent modern 'r', the 'z'-shaped 'r' is the one most frequently used. |  | Usage: cercles modern 'r' is almost always found in final position. Here, unusually, it is in the middle of a word. |
 | Usage: ther here in final position almost always accompanied by a flourish. |  | Usage: sterres apart from version 3, the only other example of modern 'r' used within a word on this folio is where 'r' is doubled, as in this example. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: is kidney-shaped 's' used in final position. |  | Usage: cercles sigma 's' used occasionally in final position. |
 | Usage: same long 's' used initially and in medial positions. |  | Usage: cross(es) double 's' with 'es' abbreviation. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: west the arms of 'w' are separate. There is a single loop at the right of the graph. |  | Usage: writen |
 | Usage: rewle a looped 'w' is also used as well as the versions in 1, 2 and 4. |  | Usage: writen |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: brynk there is very little variation in the shape of this graph. | ||
| Abbreviative Marks | |||
 | Usage: tropik(es) |  | Usage: eu(er)mor 'er' abbreviation. |
 | Usage: eu(er)mor the flourish on the final 'r' of the same word as version 2. |  | Usage: (con)teyneth the scribe frequently uses this abbreviation at the beginning of a word as also in '(con)sentryk(es)' and (com)pased'. |
| Yogh | |||
 | Usage: ȝodiake yogh used as 'z'. |  | Usage: oriȝont |