Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | London, British Library, Harley 2376 |
| Folios: | 1-124 |
| Sampled Folios: | 1r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: as all 'a's are double compartment often with larger upper lobe. |  | Usage: a 'a' with upper and lower compartments not separate units. |
 | Usage: Al the scribe uses two versions of upper case 'A' on this folio. |  | Usage: Alle |
| D | |||
 | Usage: dale 'd' is looped and has an angular lower lobe with point at the base. |  | Usage: Estward |
 | Usage: ded |  | Usage: waytede |
| G | |||
 | Usage: glotenye 'g' is also always double compartment. The lower compartment is often smaller than the upper and set at a slight forward angle. |  | Usage: Wynkyng 'g' in final position on present participles, always has a flourish, perhaps to represent a missing final 'e'. |
 | Usage: morwenynge the forward set of the lower compartment makes it appear that the graph is leaning backwards. |  | Usage: gyle |
| H | |||
 | Usage: holy the head forms a triangular loop. |  | Usage: schal the tail may be shorter or longer but generally ends beneath the body of the graph. |
 | Usage: selcouthe |  | Usage: Shope occasionally there is a slight foot on the stem. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: riche modern 'r' is used throughout in all positions. |  | Usage: wer an extreme flourish on final 'r' in this word which may be significant of final missing 'e'. It occurs at the end of a line. |
 | Usage: forto 'z'-shaped 'r' only follows 'o' on this folio. |  | Usage: spyrytes |
| S | |||
 | Usage: slepe the scribe uses sigma 's' in both initial and final positions. |  | Usage: hylles this mini-version of the upper case 'S' in version 3 is used on more than one occasion as final 's'. |
 | Usage: Som(er) the upper case version. |  | Usage: Some the scribe has two versions of upper case 'S'. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: wente the scribe's 'w's are consistently shaped with looped heads and the 'B'-shaped element to the right. The only difference is that some graphs have a foot on the lower end of the left limb. |  | Usage: wondres |
 | Usage: plow |  | Usage: Worchyng upper case graph at the beginning of a line. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: y 'y' is always dotted. The tail is short and straight. |  | Usage: Spyrytes |
 | Usage: y may |  | Usage: lyuyd |
| Thorn and Yogh | |||
 | Usage: holdeþ thorn is used frequently in all the usual situations but also as a replacement for 'th' in some words. |  | Usage: truþe |
 | Usage: ȝow there are only two examples of yogh on this folio, both using yogh as equivalent to 'y'. |  | Usage: ȝow |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: In |  | Usage: Bote |
 | Usage: Estward |  | Usage: Maluerne |