(13-07-2018, 07:37 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What would you guys say of the handwriting in the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., 15th century English.
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Hi Koen,
thank you for pointing out this script! This search for parallels is making me look at scripts in a different way. I am happy see that you share this interest!
I think the Ellesmere Chaucer script is not unrelated, several character shapes are good matches.
I can see a few traits that I think are typically (but not exclusively) English:
* the two-storey "a"
* "ff" for uppercase "f"
The "r" that descends below the baseline is also interesting. After "o", the typical 2-shaped "r" occurs.
In general, I am also becoming interested to what Rene called the "look-and-feel" of a script. The Chaucer ms seems much more formal and elegant than the VM marginalia: characters have traits of various thicknesses and they are all well-recognizable. For instance, "c" "e" and "t" are similar in many Cursiva scripts, but here they seem easy to distinguish. The exception is "u", "n" and "m" that seem to me to be markedly gothic and look like sequences of vertical "i"s (ii,iii).
According to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view., the attached lines read:
For in his purs he sholde ypunysshed be.
"Purs is the erchedekenes helle," seyde he.
But wel I woot he lyed right in dede;


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