Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | London, British Library MS Harley 1704 part 2 |
| Folios: | 28r-31r |
| Sampled Folios: | 28r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: mayde lower case 'a'. |  | Usage: And upper case 'A', used for the word 'And' as here and also for the indefinite article. |
 | Usage: And letter tipped with red ink as are all letters at the beginning of lines. |  | Usage: Alma a double compartment 'a' which appears in the opening rubric. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: lord unlooped 'd' used throughout. |  | Usage: Doune there appears to be no distinction between lower and upper case 'd'. |
 | Usage: redemptoris 'd' as it appears in the formal hand of the rubric. | ||
| G | |||
 | Usage: gost squat tailed secretary 'g'. |  | Usage: Through the combination 'gh'. |
 | Usage: gret there is hardly a tail at all on 'g' just a sort of squiggle turning counter-clockwise. |  | Usage: Gydeth upper case letter tipped with red. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: humblenesse the scribe's regular form of 'h' with looped head crossing the top of the shoulder. |  | Usage: how 'h' with tail-stroke turned to the right is used as an upper case letter and also in the first two lines of the text. |
 | Usage: Help the word occurs at the beginning of a line of verse. All initial letters are tipped with red. |  | Usage: light 'ght' combination. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: ride the single example of long 'r' on this folio. |  | Usage: faders the single example of modern 'r' also. |
 | Usage: pray 'z'-shaped 'r' used on almost every occasion and in every position. |  | Usage: Raueshed upper case 'R'. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: meruelous kidney-shaped 's' always used in final positions. Here the word is the last word in the line and the 's' has a descending vertical tag. The scribe appears to observe a rule whereby he only uses a tag if the word is in final position in the line. |  | Usage: so this 's' looks like an upper case letter and frequently stands above the letters which follow. It is only used in initial position and looks like a variant of the 6-shaped 's'. The scribe appears to have a slightly different version for upper case as in version 4. |
 | Usage: scole long 's' is also used both initially and medially. The characteristic shape of 's' and 'f' is of a fat body for the stem with tapering ends. |  | Usage: Susteyned upper case 'S' at the beginning of a line. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: weyke 'w' when used initially almost always has a curved lead-in stroke. |  | Usage: downe the only 'w' used in medial position on this folio. |
 | Usage: how 'w' in final position. | ||
| Y | |||
 | Usage: yere the tail of 'y' is short and rarely curves more than in this example. |  | Usage: opyn |
 | Usage: may | ||
| Thorn | |||
 | Usage: þrough |  | Usage: moneþes thorn used in the middle of a word. |
 | Usage: þer(abbreviation)fore |  | Usage: þat thorn tipped with red as the first letter of a line. |
| I | |||
 | Usage: I upper case 'I' shaped like a number 7. |  | Usage: I |
 | Usage: Iurye | ||