• England, London, British Library MS Sloane 1825 / Unknown

Unknown Current Manuscript: England, London, British Library MS Sloane 1825 Folios: 2-88 Sampled Folios: 2r Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'as'; a straight-sided 'a' is used throughout with horizontal dividing stroke and diagonal hairline

• England, London, British Library MS Sloane 983 / Unknown

Unknown Current Manuscript: England, London, British Library MS Sloane 983 Folios: 1-113 Sampled Folios: 81r Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'that'; 'a' is a double compartment letter but all the scribe's graphs are sloppily

• England, London, British Library MS Stowe 65 / Unknown

Unknown Current Manuscript: England, London, British Library MS Stowe 65 Folios: 1-221vb Sampled Folios: 62v, 115v Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'was'; the scribe's hand varies, perhaps according to the speed with which he

• London, British Library MS Additional 22139 / Hand B

Hand B Current Manuscript: London, British Library MS Additional 22139 Identification: May be the same as Hand A Folios: 72ra-117va Sampled Folios: 115r Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'answerd'; like the first scribe, Hand

• London, British Library MS Additional 10340 / Hand 2

Hand 2 Current Manuscript: London, British Library MS Additional 10340 Folios: 41r Sampled Folios: 41r Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'al'; this scribe made a copy of 'Truth' on f41r of the manuscript. He

• London, British Library, Additional 34779 / Unknown

Unknown Current Manuscript: London, British Library, Additional 34779 Folios: Feb-93 Sampled Folios: 34r Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'alle'; double compartment 'a' is used throughout. The upper compartment is frequently larger than the lower

• London, British Library, Additional 35287 / Unknown

Unknown Current Manuscript: London, British Library, Additional 35287 Folios: 1-104 Sampled Folios: 1r, 6v, 27v, 32v, 46v Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'bank'; both single and double compartment 'a's are used. The double compartment

• London, British Library, Harley 3954 / Herun?

Herun? Current Manuscript: London, British Library, Harley 3954 Folios: 1-123 Sampled Folios: 92r Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'a'; the hand appears very spikey. 'a' is always double compartment usually with angled stroke at

• London, British Library, Additional 12043 / Unknown

Unknown Current Manuscript: London, British Library, Additional 12043 Folios: 1-155 Sampled Folios: 24v Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'al'; the single compartment 'a' is used throughout for the lower case graph with varying degrees

• London, British Library MS Additional 25718 / Hand 2

Hand 2 Current Manuscript: London, British Library MS Additional 25718 Folios: 41-47 Sampled Folios: 47r (except for the top three lines) Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'as'; this scribe mingles secretary forms with those

• Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 171 / Unknown

right is thick and straight. Usage: 'And'; this particular upper case 'A' may be seen frequently in the hands of London Letter Book H. It is often used when the word 'Alderman' is written. Usage: 'And'; the scribe has several

• London, British Library, MS Stowe 71 / Unknown

Unknown Current Manuscript: London, British Library, MS Stowe 71 Folios: Mar-81 Sampled Folios: 3r, 50v Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'and'; single compartment 'a' used alongside double compartment 'a'. Usage: 'called'; straight-sided 'a' with

• London, British Library, Additional 35157 / Unknown

Unknown Current Manuscript: London, British Library, Additional 35157 Folios: 1-124 Sampled Folios: 17v Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'amende'; this scribe's hand is very similar to that of Scribe D with a few significant

• London, British Library MS Additional 22139 / Hand C

Hand C Current Manuscript: London, British Library MS Additional 22139 Folios: 117vb-138rb Sampled Folios: 126v, 131v Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'nam'; this is an 'a' in the scribe's display script at the top

• London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B.XVI / Unknown

Unknown Current Manuscript: London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B.XVI Folios: 6-95r Sampled Folios: 51v Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'a'; double compartment anglicana 'a' used throughout. The scribe is extremely cinsistent although the size

• Oxford, New College MS D 314 (on deposit at Bodleian) / Double-v Scribe

Oxford, New College MS D 314 (on deposit at Bodleian) London, British Library, MS Harley 2248 Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Dugdale 45 (SC 6533) Current Manuscript: Oxford, New College MS D 314 (on deposit at Bodleian) Folios: 1-311 Sampled Folios:

• London, British Library MS Additional 10340 / Hand 1

Hand 1 Current Manuscript: London, British Library MS Additional 10340 Folios: 1-40 Sampled Folios: 10v Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: nat'; straight-sided 'a' with dividing bar. Usage: 'abaist'; occasionally 'a' is open at the

• London, British Library MS Additional 9832 / Unknown

Unknown Current Manuscript: London, British Library MS Additional 9832 Folios: 1-42 Sampled Folios: 16r Image Rights: Reproduced with permission of The British Library a Usage: 'was'; single compartment 'a' used mostly, but not exclusively within the text. Usage: 'And'; upper

• Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.19 (599) / Anthology of Chaucer, Lydgate

Scriveners' Company', Archaeologia 54 (1895), 239-254 and figs. 1-12, 14-26 and 29-30. Cooper, C.R.H., 'The Archives of the City of London Livery Companies and related Organizations', Archives 16 (1984), 232-253 and plate 2 illustrating p.66. Mooney, Linne R., 'Scribes and

• England, Petworth, Petworth House, The National Trust MS 7 / Canterbury Tales

up to 22 Henry VI (1443-1444) is also by this scribe, ff 2-19 (1441) and sporadically thereafter to 1443-1444. See also Griffiths in Eng/MSS Studies 5 (1995), 214-219, [for illust. of f4 see Robinson, Dated and Datable London, Plate 116].