Alphabet on Page 1?

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The handwriting in the first column has some distinctive palaeographic characteristics that I already mentioned in the blog series, but I'll summarize them here:

• very long ascenders and descenders
  
• a long curve on the long-ess and f (long and rounded, not straight or short and severe)
  
• MOST IMPORTANT, the angle of the loop on the p and q—this is rare and distinctive to this scribe
  
• small "o" and rounded "c" (the z is also a distinctive style)
  
• a curl on the 9 abbreviation char (this is the older style, rather than the later one)
  

These characteristics, taken together, should make it possible to recognize the handwriting, if it can be found. I've been looking for this particular scribe for 12 years. Haven't found a match yet, but I have found a few that are close. If I can ever find time, I will post the more recent samples (I have some that are more similar than the preliminary ones I blogged in the charts).