Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | London, British Library, Cotton Caligula A.XI |
| Folios: | 170-286 (Piers Booklet) |
| Sampled Folios: | 209r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: castel double compartment 'a' with upper compartment usually slightly smaller than the lower. The head is flat and sometimes linked by a hair-line stroke. |  | Usage: aboue the lower compartment is oval in shape. |
 | Usage: a |  | Usage: Ac the upper case graph has a squared off lower lobe. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: do bet looped 'd' is used throughout. It has a pointed lower lobe. |  | Usage: do best |
 | Usage: wold 'd' in final position with tag added to the extended loop-stroke. |  | Usage: doth triangular lower lobe and oval loop. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: grete 'g' is also a graph with angular aspect. The squarish upper lobe is finished with a hairline stroke across the head. |  | Usage: strengthe the lower compartment of 'g' is frequently pointed at the left side. |
 | Usage: leryng the upper compartment is squarish in shape. |  | Usage: Godfray |
| H | |||
 | Usage: his 'h' has a triangular head-loop and leans slightly to the right. |  | Usage: dwellith 'h' is often crossed when it follows 't', (though see version 4). |
 | Usage: wyght 'h' is also crossed in this combination. |  | Usage: rathe |
| R | |||
 | Usage: rathe long 'r' is used initially and medially. |  | Usage: hir modern 'r' is used in both medial and final positions. |
 | Usage: proud 'z'-shaped 'r' is used after 'o' and round-bodied graphs. |  | Usage: or modern 'r' in final position. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: sones both sigma and long 's' are used in initial positions. |  | Usage: is kidney-shaped 's' is used in final position. Most 's's in final position on this folio have the curved otiose stroke as an addition. |
 | Usage: sire long 's' in initial position. |  | Usage: visione the head of long 's' is closed in this example, forming a loop. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: wille the left limb of 'w' is usually a separate entity. |  | Usage: knoweth both limbs are very upright. The head-loops extend quite a way above the 'B'-shaped element to the right. |
 | Usage: wt |  | Usage: What the upper case graph is exactly the same as the lower case one. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: Syre the left limb of 'y' is vertical. |  | Usage: away the tail-stroke does not vary very much in curvature or length. |
 | Usage: ysette |  | Usage: thynges the tail of 'y' is often short. |
| Thorn | |||
 | Usage: þt thorn is indistinguishable from 'y'. |  | Usage: þat |
 | Usage: noȝt only one yogh on the folio examined. | ||
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: In |  | Usage: Passus |
 | Usage: Godfray |  | Usage: Ac |