Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | London, British Library MS Harley 3490 |
| Folios: | 1-215v |
| Sampled Folios: | 8r, 191v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: gouernaunce single compartment lower case 'a' is used throughout. |  | Usage: and |
 | Usage: And the simpler form of upper case 'A'. |  | Usage: And this much more complicated version of upper case 'A' is used frequently by the scribe. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: dedde looped 'd' is used throughout and is amazingly consistent. |  | Usage: good 'd' in final position has a brief upward extension of the loop stroke. |
 | Usage: myddle |  | Usage: Do upper case 'D'. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: good tailed 'g' is used throughout with horned head and counter-clockwise turn of the tail. |  | Usage: Preyng 'g' in final position with curl on the extended horizontal stroke. |
 | Usage: greued a tail which turns clockwise and extends in a horizontal line beneath preceding graphs. |  | Usage: Gabinos |
| H | |||
 | Usage: he looped head grazing the shoulder, and a short limb with tiny tail-stroke curling clockwise. |  | Usage: wich a crossed 'h' after 'c'. |
 | Usage: homi(n)es a more elaborate 'h' perhaps because it is from the Latin gloss. |  | Usage: He a different form of upper case 'H'. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: rede modern 'r' is used occasionally in initial and final positions. |  | Usage: rede 'z'-shaped 'r' is used almost all the time and in every position. |
 | Usage: super |  | Usage: Rome upper case 'R' with looped approach stroke to the long curving stem of the graph. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: sones long 's' is used in initial position. The stem is generally short and fat with a head-stroke which forms a triangle and a small point at the base of the stem. |  | Usage: maners kidney 's' is used in final position. |
 | Usage: lasse |  | Usage: So upper case 'S'. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: was the left limb of 'w' is much taller than the rest of the graph. |  | Usage: werre |
 | Usage: fewe even within a word, the left limb extends above the top of surrounding graphs. |  | Usage: With the upper case graph is the same as the lower case one. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: hym the body of 'y' varies little. The tail varies in length and curvature. |  | Usage: may |
 | Usage: tirannye 'y' may be dotted. |  | Usage: ofte tyme in the lower margin the tail of 'y' is extended, elaborately looped and decorated with two pairs of short parallel lines. |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: The |  | Usage: Ben |
 | Usage: Liche |  | Usage: Preyng |