Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Kk.1.3, pt.11 (XI) |
| Folios: | 1-79 |
| Sampled Folios: | 60v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: taaste double compartment lower case 'a' used throughout. The second 'a' on the image has a kind of small loop above the top compartment. There are several examples of a similar feature on 'a's on this folio. |  | Usage: victoria straight-sided 'a' with horizontal cross-bar from the rubric in the hand of the scribe. |
 | Usage: And upper case 'A' is formed with a squarish lower lobe and a head stroke which is either closed, as here, or open as in version 4. |  | Usage: Aftir |
| D | |||
 | Usage: dispendith 'd' in initial position. In fact the 'd' graph varies little. The lower lobe is occasionally slightly more pointed on the left side. |  | Usage: And 'd' in final position. |
 | Usage: bloode a more rounded version of 'd' ligatured with 'e'. |  | Usage: dispendid (final 'd') 'd' in final position with discreet tag. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: largesse anglicana double compartment 'g' alternates with the secretary form. |  | Usage: having secretary 'g' in final position. The scribe occasionally does not seem to have made up his mind which version of 'g' he wishes to use and the result is a kind of hybrid version. |
 | Usage: outrage 'g' with lower compartment with point at the left side. |  | Usage: wight 'ght' combination. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: he 'h' usually has a shortish limb which is neatly executed. |  | Usage: berith occasionally the tail curves to the left beneath the body of the graph. |
 | Usage: .myghte the 'ght' combination. |  | Usage: Holsome upper case 'H' with distinctive pairs of horizontal lines across the stem. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: largesse modern 'r' used in all positions but on this folio always in final position. |  | Usage: berith 'z'-shaped 'r' is used in initial and medial positions. Although the two 'r's are both used in medial positions, the 'z'-shaped 'r' takes preference after most vowels. |
 | Usage: verrey it is apparent from this image that both 'r's are formed in exactly the same way. Modern 'r' merely has an extra stroke to follow as the shoulder-stroke, otherwise the basic shape is the same. |  | Usage: Richesse upper case 'R' followed by 'i'. Capitalisation of the noun rather than the first word of the line. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: enmyes kidney-shaped 's' is always used in final position. |  | Usage: some long 's' is used initially and medially. Long 's' often has a visible wing to the left of the shaft which marks the beginning of the head-stroke. The stem is a thick stroke. |
 | Usage: norisshinge sometimes long 's' is thick at the base of the descender then has a fine tag trailing down from it as an extension. |  | Usage: So upper case 'S' is quite distinctive. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: wastith there is little variation in 'w' which is much like a modern graph. |  | Usage: were the length of the approach stroke varies. |
 | Usage: wight |  | Usage: Where 'W' in upper case position. There is a foot at the lower end of the left limb which may distinguish it from most lower case versions but see version 3. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: Victory in some examples of 'y' the scribe uses a single thick straight descender as the left arm of 'y' which continues as a tail. He adds the curved right limb which joins the main descender three quarters of the way down. The same formation may be seen in version 3. |  | Usage: enmyes a more conventionally scribed graph of 'y'. Some 'y's are dotted. |
 | Usage: myghte the tail of 'y' is sometimes virtually non-existent. |  | Usage: verrey |
| Thorn and Yogh | |||
 | Usage: 'þe thorn is not used frequently. This definite article is the only one apart from the example in version 2. |  | Usage: þ(er)to the head of thorn is open. |
 | Usage: ȝevith yogh is used frequently as equivalent of 'y' as well as of 'gh'. |  | Usage: nouȝt |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: Shal an interesting upper case 'S'. |  | Usage: That 'T usually has an extension at an angle above the head stroke. |
 | Usage: Largesse the same double parallel lines across the stem of 'L' as across 'H'. |  | Usage: But |