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Piers Plowman: Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 201 |
 | | Barred single and double are ambiguous, and we have resolved them according to context either as and or as and / depending upon the usual spellings of the words in which they appear. |
| | Barred is frequently a meaningless ornament in late medieval vernacular hands, but by searching for the scribe's treatment of in words where the inflection was spelled out, we could determine from both the words in which it appeared and the distribution of its appearances that it is a genuine abbreviation for this scribe. |
| | The forms reflect the change in LOE /y:/ to /e:/ in Middlesex, Sussex, Essex, and Suffolk, and are consonant with |
| jefferson.village.virginia.edu /piers/seenet/front.sgm (13581 words) |
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