The Scribe's Hand

A. Usage: "A hanfull."

a. Usage: "hanfull."

d. Usage: "dragonys."

d+s. Usage: "marygolds."

e. Usage: "esely." Throughout the manuscript, "e" looks like a cursive "o."

g. Usage: "god." Double-compartment g is used throughout.

h. Usage: "hanfull." The scribe's h has a long vertical descender.

k. Usage: "seknys." The scribe makes a beautiful k that extends both above and below the line.

per. Usage: "personys." Also used similarly in "perell." The scribe adds an extra horizontal bar to the bottom of "p" to indicate a missing "er."

qu. Usage: "quant[yte]." The scribe's "q" looks like a present-day g.

r. Usage: "rewe." Most of the scribe's r's, whether initial, medial, or final, are z-shaped.

r. Usage: "route." Occsasionally, the scribe's "r" will be v-shaped. This occurs both initially, as pictured, and in the middle of the word "marygolds."

Shorthand: final e. Usage: "bene." The scribe frequently uses a loop over the penultimate n or m to indicate a final "e" at the end of a word.

Shorthand: "the." Usage: þe. The scribe consistenly uses thorn with a superscript e to indicate "the."

Shorthand: that. Usage: "þt." The scribe consistently uses thorn plus a superscript "t" to indicate "that."

And. The scribe frequently uses Tironian et.