Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poet. 137 |
| Folios: | 1-46 |
| Sampled Folios: | 11r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: and the scribe uses both single and double compartment 'a'. Double compartment is the favoured graph but the use of either appears to be indiscriminate. |  | Usage: al |
 | Usage: Passus the scribe's display script in the rubric. |  | Usage: and there do not appear to be any upper case 'A's on this folio. The example here may be one as it appears at the beginning of a line. However, the distinctive upper case letters are tipped with red ink. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: drede again the scribe uses both looped and unlooped 'd' with a preference for the unlooped letter. |  | Usage: gold looped 'd' in final position with short tag. |
 | Usage: golde |  | Usage: myddel |
| G | |||
 | Usage: gold there is a fine hairline stroke which connects the lower with the upper compartment. However it is not always easy to see and the 'g' often appears to be a tailed 'g' rather than a double compartment graph. |  | Usage: kyng |
 | Usage: gylt the faint hairline can just about be seen but the 'g' has the appearance of a tailed letter. |  | Usage: Gentely one of the upper case letters which is tipped with red ink. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: hur 'h' has looped head and varies in the angle of the descent of the limb. |  | Usage: confortyth |
 | Usage: sche the tail-stroke is short, extending briefly below the line. |  | Usage: hendelyche |
| R | |||
 | Usage: rynges long 'r' is used in all positions including after 'o'. |  | Usage: her(e) in final position, 'r' is often flourished. |
 | Usage: tercius modern 'r' in the scribe's display script. |  | Usage: wyrche the fork of the graph generally occurs at or around the level of the line. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: sche long 's' is used in initial and medial positions. |  | Usage: bedelys sigma 's' is mainly found in final position. However, see version 3. |
 | Usage: Curteysly sigma 's' used in the middle of a word. |  | Usage: Saue the upper case graph as the first letter of the page. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: wrong 'w' is almost invariable. |  | Usage: Now |
 | Usage: wt the scribe often abbreviates the word 'with' in this way. |  | Usage: folwe |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: treuly the shape of the body of 'y' is consistent. The tail-stroke varies in length and curvature. |  | Usage: tremelyd |
 | Usage: þy |  | Usage: kyng occasionally the tail of 'y' is straight. |
| Thorn and Yogh | |||
 | Usage: þe thorn is mainly used for the definite article and for pronouns and demonstratives. It is rarely used elsewhere. The scribe abbreviates many of these words with a superscript above the thorn. |  | Usage: behyȝþ one of the only occasions on this folio where thorn is used for 'th' other than on the occasions mentioned above. |
 | Usage: ȝif yogh is used as equivalent of 'y'. |  | Usage: lauȝthe yogh is also used as equivalent of 'gh'. |
| Upper Case Letters | |||
 | Usage: Passus |  | Usage: I |
 | Usage: ffor |  | Usage: Coupys |