Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 158 |
| Folios: | 1-96 |
| Sampled Folios: | 68v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: aftir single compartment 'a' used throughout. The scribe's hand is very even and there is little variation in letter form. |  | Usage: bataile the second 'a' graph in this word. |
 | Usage: Ageyn single compartment upper case 'A' at the beginning of a line. |  | Usage: And the first word of the folio so a slightly bigger graph. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: dispende the initial 'd' of this word. Looped 'd' is used throughout. |  | Usage: gode |
 | Usage: De the first word of the rubric in the hand of the scribe and the ink of the text. |  | Usage: Descendid upper case letter at the beginning of a line. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: grace the scribe's hand is neat and compact. There is little variation in any of his graphs. |  | Usage: stronge double compartment 'g' is used throughout. There is generally an overhang from the stroke at the right side of the lower compartment which is square in appearance. |
 | Usage: Reg(is?) marginal Latin gloss. | ||
| H | |||
 | Usage: swiche the majority of the scribe's 'h' graphs are as in the example here. The head-stroke is rounded, the limb extends from the shoulder in a thick curve followed by a hairline to extend the stroke and pressure from flattened quill to form a finishing dot. |  | Usage: knyghthode almost the only example on this folio of 'h' which does not finish the tail as in version 1 above. The head-strokes descend at an angle here rather than the usual rounded form. |
 | Usage: His the upper case letter is the same as the lower case example. |  | Usage: myghte 'ght' combination. The only other example apart from version 2 where the tail-stroke does not end with a dot. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: grete modern 'r' is used in initial and medial positions. |  | Usage: your long 'r' is used in final position, sometimes, as here, with flourish. |
 | Usage: lordshippes 'z'-shaped 'r' follows 'o'. |  | Usage: Regis |
| S | |||
 | Usage: lyfles kidney 's' is always used in final position. |  | Usage: Regis the only 8-shaped 's' on this folio occurs in the Latin rubric. |
 | Usage: Descendid long 's' is used in initial and medial positions. |  | Usage: euennesse where 'ss' is used, the first graph is always shorter than the second. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: rowne there is very little variation in the scribe's loop-headed 'w' graph. |  | Usage: alwey occasionally the two limbs of the graph are not so close together and the second limb stands a little higher than the first. |
 | Usage: ouerthwerte |  | Usage: Whiche the initial letter of the line so it could be the scribe's upper case graph. It is exactly the same as the lower case examples. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: Ageyn again the 'y' graph is very consistently formed. |  | Usage: lynage |
 | Usage: Yee the first letter of the line so perhaps the upper case version. Again, there is no difference between upper and lower case versions. | ||
| Thorn | |||
 | Usage: þerto a distinctive hairline approach to the short angled stroke which initiates the descender. |  | Usage: worþi the stem is thick but tapers as it descends. |
 | Usage: Þat |  | Usage: Þee |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: O |  | Usage: My |
 | Usage: If 'I' has the same hairline approach to the angled head-stroke as the scribe's thorn graph. |  | Usage: Promote both lower and upper case 'P' also have the hairline approach stroke to an angled head-stroke before scribing the descender. |