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The Tremulous Hand of Worcester
The Tremulous Hand of Worcester is the name given to a 13th-century glossator of Old English manuscripts with handwriting characterized by large, shaky, leftward leaning figures usually written in light brown ink. He is assumed to have worked in Worcester Priory because all manuscripts identified as his work have been connected to Worcester.
==Variation in work==
The variability of his work indicates that the Tremulous Hand of Worcester had a long career in glossing. He is credited to have over 50,000 glosses written in both Middle English and in Latin.
In some manuscripts one out of every four words is glossed, while in others only one or two glosses appear on a page. While glossing Old English texts he is also known to have edited the works, adding punctuation marks and in what is identified as his early work changing the vowels and consonants of Old English words to be more like their Middle English counterparts. His earliest work is predominantly glossed in Middle English, but later he begins to gloss equally in both Middle English and Latin.
Although he is most typically identified by light brown ink, the Tremulous Hand used multiple media types and his glossing evolved throughout his career, showing a considerable range characterized by variable "layers". His hand tremor grew worse with time; also whereas in his earliest glosses he uses contemporary Middle English that reveals a close kinship with the language of the ''Ancrene Wisse'' manuscript Nero A.xiv (his handwriting also resembles that scribe's), he later appears to be collecting Old English words in the margin, perhaps in order to compile a glossary.〔 He often indicates that something should be noted (using the Latin word ''nota'' or an abbreviation) and sometimes makes a doodle.〔
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