Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson poet. 38 |
| Folios: | 1-102 |
| Sampled Folios: | 33v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: acountes double compartment 'a' used throughout. The head stroke sometimes appears detached. |  | Usage: day |
 | Usage: penance 'a' is straight-sided with horizontal cross-bar. |  | Usage: A only this version of upper case 'A' is used on this folio. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: dedly 'd's are looped and evenly formed. The lower bowl is often angular. |  | Usage: world the loop is generally of horizontal aspect and tends to lie across the lower lobe. |
 | Usage: laddest |  | Usage: dede the loops of the two 'd's are squashed to line up with the round 'e's which in turn are very similar to the 'd' graph. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: go the lower compartment of 'g' almost always appears to be in advance of the upper compartment. |  | Usage: indulgences because of the position of the lower compartment, the graph itself appears to lean backwards. |
 | Usage: Iuges |  | Usage: grace |
| H | |||
 | Usage: heuene the tail of 'h' usually ends just below the level of the stem. |  | Usage: erthe on occasions, the scribe extends the tail of 'h' horizontally beneath previous graphs. |
 | Usage: riche |  | Usage: How 'H' at the beginning of a line with wider curve on the tail. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: rede long 'r' is used throughout in all positions. |  | Usage: moder final 'r' generally has a slight flick upwards at the end of the shoulder. |
 | Usage: preyeres 'z'-shaped 'r' is used after some vowels and round-bodied graphs. There is a curled otiose stroke from the lower left of the graph. |  | Usage: her(e) flourished 'r' for missing 'e'. The shoulder of 'r' is detached and the flourish curls up over the shoulder making almost a complete circle. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: synned sigma 's' is used in initial position. |  | Usage: elles the most frequently used final 's' is 8-shaped. |
 | Usage: triennales occasionally the head-stroke of the graph curves upwards instead of closing to form an '8'. |  | Usage: sesoun long 's' is used only occasionally as the initial graph. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: welth 'w' is consistently formed. The left limb usually stands separate from the rest of the graph. |  | Usage: dowel the top of 'w' is generally at the height of surrounding graphs. |
 | Usage: twene sometimes, the second part of the graph looks as though it has slipped down the page. |  | Usage: With oute upper case 'W' at the beginning of a line. The longer lead-in stroke is the only thing which might differentiate the graph from the lower case examples. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: synned 'y' often looks just like thorn and in many places it is difficult to distinguish them. Here the graph has no tail. |  | Usage: trewely |
 | Usage: day by day |  | Usage: mercy towards the lower part of the folio, occasional 'y's have tails. |
| Thorn and Yogh | |||
 | Usage: þow almost no difference between this thorn and some of the examples of 'y'. |  | Usage: þe |
 | Usage: hiȝte yogh is used as equivalent of both 'gh' and 'y'. |  | Usage: ȝoure |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: Quod |  | Usage: I t a very distinctive upper case 'I'. |
 | Usage: Be |  | Usage: To |