Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | Cambridge, Cambridge University Library MS Ii.3.26 |
| Folios: | 2-237 |
| Sampled Folios: | 52r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: newgate 'a's are straight-sided with fine horizontal cross-bar and flat head. |  | Usage: a |
 | Usage: And |  | Usage: And upper case 'A's are consistently formed in this fashion. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: day looped 'd' used throughout. |  | Usage: disporte the lower lobe may be rounded, square or triangular in shape. |
 | Usage: hadde the scribe continues the loop of the second 'd' down to form a ligature with the final 'e'. |  | Usage: disserued |
| G | |||
 | Usage: go secretary tailed 'g' is used throughout and usually sits on the line. |  | Usage: prologe the right down-stroke is a simple curve. |
 | Usage: Gamelyn |  | Usage: myght 'g' has the appearance of leaning backwards, 'h' seems to lean forward. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: he the looped head-stroke of the graph lies over the top of the shoulder. |  | Usage: his there is very little variation in 'h'. |
 | Usage: Here the opening word of the rubric. |  | Usage: he the looped head is almost horizontal in this example. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: aright 'z'-shaped 'r' is used on this folio on all occasions and in all positions. The single exception can be seen in version 2. |  | Usage: array the only occasion on this folio that any 'r' apart from the 'z'-shaped 'r' is used. |
 | Usage: revelle 'z'-shaped 'r' in initial position. |  | Usage: maister 'z'-shaped 'r' in final position with upward tag. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: his kidney-shaped 's' is always used in final position. |  | Usage: same long 's' is used throughout the folio both initially and medially. A tapered descender. |
 | Usage: siked the single occasion on this folio where sigma 's' is used. |  | Usage: So |
| W | |||
 | Usage: were 'w' is cursive with curled approach stroke to the left limb. |  | Usage: newgate although the 'w' graph is in the middle of a word, there is still a curling approach stroke to the graph. 'w' stands above the level of surrounding graphs. |
 | Usage: Wele upper case 'W' is exactly the same as the lower case letter. |  | Usage: owne the limbs of 'w' are almost twice the height of the preceding graph. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: Erly 'y' is frequently dotted. |  | Usage: nyght sometimes the tail of 'y' extends to join the next letter. |
 | Usage: tyme sometimes the tail of 'y' is short. |  | Usage: array 'y' in final position in the line. |
| Pointing Hands | |||
 | Usage: A pointing hand in the left margin indicating the words 'and swyved for hir sustenaunce' at the end of the unfinished Cook's Tale. |  | Usage: This is reinforced in the right margin where the same line is indicated, this time pointing down. |
| f | |||
 | Usage: of final 'f' always has an attached down-stroke. On this folio, no other letter attracts a tag such as this. |  | Usage: Of |
 | Usage: yaf |  | Usage: of |
| I | |||
 | Usage: It upper case 'I' varies little in formation. It is simple and unadorned. |  | Usage: Ioly the closed loop to the left of the stem is a characteristic feature of this graph. |
 | Usage: I |  | Usage: Iohn |