Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | Oxford, Corpus Christi College MS 201 |
| Folios: | 1-93 |
| Sampled Folios: | 1r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: all double compartment 'a' used throughout. The down-stroke is thick and straight. The two compartments vary in size. |  | Usage: faste in this example, the upper compartment is bigger than the lower one. |
 | Usage: Ankrys obviously intended as an upper case graph as tipped with red although not the first word. The next word 'Hermytys' is similarly tipped with red. |  | Usage: As |
| D | |||
 | Usage: deep most of the scribe's 'd' graphs are as here with open centre. |  | Usage: world here the upper loop is closed but tangled with the previous graph. |
 | Usage: bidderis |  | Usage: yfond |
| G | |||
 | Usage: ga(n) double compartment 'g' is used throughout. |  | Usage: slepy(n)g a long horizontal stroke from the head of the graph almost collides with the caesural virgule. |
 | Usage: beggeris 'g's of various sizes. |  | Usage: syghte 'g' appears rather squashed here with following 'h'. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: hem an upright graph of 'h'. Some of the scribe's 'h's lean forwards. |  | Usage: chaffare the stem of 'h' is beginning to lean. The tail is long and sweeps under the previous graph. |
 | Usage: what here the 'w' appears to lean backwards and the 'h' to lean forwards. |  | Usage: Hermytys |
| R | |||
 | Usage: ryche modern 'r' is used in all positions. |  | Usage: tour 'r' in final position has an arched flourish. |
 | Usage: boorne 'z'-shaped 'r' follows 'o' and round-bodied graphs. The thick claw-like extension from bottom left is part of the graph itself. |  | Usage: malverne |
| S | |||
 | Usage: shoop sigma 's' with strokes crossing at the head. Sigma 's' is used initially and in final position. |  | Usage: shrowdes long 's' is used occasionally in initial position. |
 | Usage: as |  | Usage: Sum(m)e |
| W | |||
 | Usage: wyldernesse 'w's are similarly formed. |  | Usage: wawys the middle limb varies in height and sometimes stands above the other elements of the graph. |
 | Usage: wastoures |  | Usage: Wyrkynge |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: feerly the left limb of 'y' is usually vertical. The tail is long and turns counter-clockwise, often running right back up over the line. |  | Usage: wery |
 | Usage: Hermytys |  | Usage: thryvyn |
| Thorn and Yogh | |||
 | Usage: þis thorn is used in all the usual places as well as sometimes merely to replace 'th'. |  | Usage: Boþe |
 | Usage: seyȝ |  | Usage: heyȝ |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: I |  | Usage: Vpon |
 | Usage: Of |  | Usage: Poul |