Scribal Profile Unknown | |
| Current Manuscript: | London, British Library, Lansdowne MS 398 |
| Folios: | 77r-80r |
| Sampled Folios: | 80r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: and all lower case 'a's are double compartment. The upper compartment is slightly smaller than the lower compartment. |  | Usage: apertelyche sometimes the scribe uses a hairline stroke to close the head of the upper compartment. |
 | Usage: And upper case 'A' at th beginning of a line. Note the space left between the initial 'A' graph and the remainder of the word. The same situation occurs in Wales, Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS 21972D, a fragment of the Nun's Priest's Link and Tale possibly copied by Adam Pinkhurst. |  | Usage: And the opening word on the folio with 'A' slightly larger but with same space between first and second letters. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: doth looped 'd' in initial position. |  | Usage: god 'd' in final position. None of the final 'd's on this folio have any tag attached. |
 | Usage: biddynge double 'd'. |  | Usage: swerdes 'd' in medial position. All lower case 'd's are basically the same. |
| G | |||
 | Usage: god double compartment 'g' used throughout. Here 'g' is in initial position. |  | Usage: lacchyng 'g' in final position with vertical tag attached to the horizontal from the head of the upper compartment. |
 | Usage: archangeles 'g' in edial position with lower compartment slightly in advance of the upper compartment. |  | Usage: grownde another 'g' in initial position. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: hire 'h' in initial position. |  | Usage: wyth 'h' in final position. |
 | Usage: trewthe 'h' in medial position. The extension of the stroke from the shoulder of 'h' extends in cramped style. |  | Usage: How 'H' at the beginning of a line with space left after the first initial letter. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: rappe long 'r' in initial position. Long 'r' is used in all positions on this folio apart from 'z'-shaped 'r' for which see version 3. |  | Usage: þer with long 'r' in final position despite the following word 'with'. |
 | Usage: for one of only two 'z'-shaped 'r''s on this folio. This graph follows 'o', the other follows 'p' (preye). |  | Usage: drewery two long 'r's in medial position. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: soule sigma 's' used exclusively on this folio in initial position. |  | Usage: tresores 8-shaped 's' always used in final position. The final 's' graph sometimes has an upward sloping tag as here. |
 | Usage: gospel long 's' used in medial positions. |  | Usage: Seint possible upper case 'S' in initial position, so sigma 's' used as with lower case examples. |
| W | |||
 | Usage: with 'w' in initial position. The scribes versions of this graph are consistently formed. |  | Usage: H ow 'w' in final position. |
 | Usage: derworthe 'w' in medial position. |  | Usage: W hanne 'W' in initial position with space before the second graph. The formation of the graph is the same as for the lower case letter. |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: kynges there are no examples of initial 'y' on this folio. This 'y' is the second graph in this word, separated from the initial letter by a space. Most of the scribe's 'y's are fashioned in the same way with slight variations on length of tail or tail with slight curvature. This 'y' conforms to type. |  | Usage: pytously 'y' in final position. Note the short tail with no return. |
 | Usage: drewery final 'y' with slight turn on tail. |  | Usage: seraphyn 'y' in medial position with very short tail. |
| Thorn and Yogh | |||
 | Usage: þis thorn used for demonstratives. |  | Usage: [Th]at thorn in initial position at the beginning of a line. |
 | Usage: kniȝtes yogh used for the 'ght' combination. |  | Usage: ȝaf used as representative of the 'y' sound. |