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Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | Oxford, Bodleian Library MS e. Musaeo 16 |
| Folios: | 1-310 |
| Sampled Folios: | 8v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: at 'a' is always double compartment with straight sides and angled hairline at the left side of the head. |  | Usage: waaste |
 | Usage: And upper case 'A' with 2-shaped element to begin. |  | Usage: And occasionally there is a shadow stroke to the right of the main down-stroke. It is not seen in this example, perhaps because as the initial letter of a line it would be slashed with red. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: dyuersite this is the most usual form of 'd' although as will be seen in the following examples, the scribe uses his imagination at times. |  | Usage: heede looped head on 'd'. |
 | Usage: liddes long wavy strokes rather than the usual short angled one for the final down-stroke. |  | Usage: De an elaborate upper case 'D' in the gloss. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: be'greued 'g' is tailed with a tail turning clockwise and extending in a long horizontal line which extends beneath previous graphs. |  | Usage: bleding final 'g' with extra tag extending above the graph and ending with a diamond shape. This may be the scribe's method of indicating a missing final 'e'. However, the same tag is also used as the 'dot' for 'y'. |
 | Usage: grustels |  | Usage: dyuers gobettes |
| H | |||
 | Usage: hele 'h' is usually neatly contained with straight limb ending with a small flick to the left. |  | Usage: Englissche after 'c' , 'h' is normally crossed. |
 | Usage: nought |  | Usage: cheekes the scribe frequently adds fine otiose loops or lines to several graphs as decoration. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: rounde the 'r' and the 'o' blend together in this example. |  | Usage: oþir final 'r' with fine otiose stroke merely for decoration. |
 | Usage: for 'z'-shaped 'r' almost always has an otiose loop beneath the graph. |  | Usage: cheere |
| S | |||
 | Usage: serue long 's' is used in initial and medial positions. It frequently has a number of 'fins' on the left side. The number varies and this example is rather overcrowded with them. |  | Usage: lymes kidney-shaped 's' in final position. |
 | Usage: mooste could be mistaken for an 'f' since the cross-bar of 't' bisects the stem of 's'. |  | Usage: suffiseþ a wing to begin the first long 's' and another heavily finned example. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: we 'w' is consistently formed throughout. |  | Usage: colowre 'w' is the same size as the graphs on either side. |
 | Usage: twey |  | Usage: iknowe |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: ynne 'y' is almost always dotted. The body is square-shaped and the tail is usually short and straight with no return. |  | Usage: þey |
 | Usage: Þey probably the only example on this folio where the tail of 'y' turns counter-clockwise. |  | Usage: yȝen |
| Thorn and Yogh | |||
 | Usage: neþir thorn is used frequently. |  | Usage: comeþ the stem of thorn is thick and straight with no taper. The lobe is a box-like addition. |
 | Usage: ȝif yogh is used as equivalent of both the 'y' and 'gh' elements. |  | Usage: hyȝe |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: But |  | Usage: Constantine |
 | Usage: Neþeles a rather tortured upper case 'N'. |  | Usage: Þe upper case Thorn with more fin decoration of the stem. |