Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | Europe, Dublin, Ireland, Trinity College MS 213 |
| Folios: | 1-72 |
| Sampled Folios: | 8v |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: aspye the use of the single and double compartment 'a' is fairly evenly divided. |  | Usage: as double compartment 'a' looks rather strange but seems to have been executed with a looping stroke from the lobe of 'a', curling up to make the top compartment, and finishing with a horizontal to move on to the next graph. |
 | Usage: amicos an 'a' in the scribe's display script. |  | Usage: And upper case 'A's have loops which extends back making the whole graph appear to lean. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: de(ser)ued 'd' is always looped but this example has a sharper than average lower lobe. |  | Usage: nakyd almost all final 'd's have a downward extension to the finishing stroke. |
 | Usage: Secundus 'd' in the scribe's display script. |  | Usage: bydd(es) abbreviative mark for the plural added on to the final 'd'. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: grevyd anglicana 'g' has a squarish upper compartment and a longer oval-shaped lower compartment. |  | Usage: kyng |
 | Usage: boght on more than one occasion, the lower compartment is not closed. |  | Usage: leng(er) 'g' often seems to lean forward. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: half the stem and head of 'h' lean forwards. |  | Usage: trouth the tail-stroke sometimes finishes in a gentle curve beneath the graph, but sometimes continues in a loop back to the body of the graph. |
 | Usage: taght |  | Usage: shal |
| R | |||
 | Usage: robe long 'r' is used in all positions. The graph is extremely long. |  | Usage: or |
 | Usage: worthely after 'o', 'z'-shaped 'r' is used. |  | Usage: rynge/euer long initial 'r' to begin the first word, and exaggerated finish to the final 'r' on the line below. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: spende long 's' used in initial and medial positions. The head-stroke is separate and horizontal. |  | Usage: fals sigma 's' is used in final position. |
 | Usage: vobis kidney-shaped 's' is used in the scribe's display script. |  | Usage: blyssyd splaying of the double 's'. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: was 'w' is mainly in the form found in the other three versions. However, there is a single example of this looped 'w' on this folio. |  | Usage: Now the left arm of 'w' is much taller than the rest of the graph. |
 | Usage: qwen |  | Usage: When upper case 'W' at the beginning of a line with left arm extending way out into left margin. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: fyngers 'y' and thorn are virtually indistinguishable. |  | Usage: atyryde |
 | Usage: kney |  | Usage: mary |
| Thorn | |||
 | Usage: þis as mentioned under 'y', thorn is an almost identical graph. |  | Usage: þ(er) |
 | Usage: þt |  | Usage: þus |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: Lo |  | Usage: I |
 | Usage: Bot |  | Usage: Now |