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A |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-a.jpg) | Usage: passed little variation in single compartment 'a'. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-a2.jpg) | Usage: aright |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-a3.jpg) | Usage: And | | |
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D |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-d.jpg) | Usage: don there is little variation in the formation of the scribe's 'd' graph which is always looped. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-d2.jpg) | Usage: chield 'd' in final position features a diagonal tag descending from the extension of the loop. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-d3.jpg) | Usage: badde | | |
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G |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-g.jpg) | Usage: Boloigne 'g' is always double compartment. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-g2.jpg) | Usage: Besechyng the double compartment 'g' has a slightly larger lower lobe. Here in final position a tag is attached to the horizontal slash (which in this example is sloping upwards). |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-g3.jpg) | Usage: dought(er) 'gh' combination. | | |
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H |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-h.jpg) | Usage: whens the scribe's formation of 'h' is extremely consistent. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-h2.jpg) | Usage: goth in the 'th' combination the cross bar of 't' extends to cross the 'h'. The 'ght' combination is not crossed. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-h3.jpg) | Usage: He even the upper case letter varies little. | | |
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R |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-r.jpg) | Usage: Margarys example to show the scribe's use of both 'z'-shaped 'r' and modern 'r'. 'z'-shaped 'r' is used in all positions. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-r2.jpg) | Usage: reto(ur)ne 'z'-shaped 'r' in initial position. This 'r' is used for the majority of the time. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-r3.jpg) | Usage: myrry the only use of long 'r' on f167r, but used in initial position also on f241r. | | |
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S |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-s.jpg) | Usage: she sigma 's' used in initial and final positions. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-s2.jpg) | Usage: was |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-s3.jpg) | Usage: besy a characteristic of the Hammond scribe is the arching head-stroke on long 's' which sweeps over following letters and spaces. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-241r-s4.jpg) | Usage: swerdis long 's' in initial position with head-stroke arching over the following letter. |
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W |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-w.jpg) | Usage: whider again the scribe's 'w' graph shows little variation. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-w2.jpg) | Usage: nowe |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-w3.jpg) | Usage: Were upper case 'W' at the beginning of a line. The left limb of the letter is longer than in the previous examples. | | |
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Y |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-y.jpg) | Usage: Besechyng the tail of 'y' is usually fairly short and does not describe a great arc. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-y2.jpg) | Usage: myght on some occasions, the right arm of 'y' is higher than the left arm of the graph. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-241r-y3.jpg) | Usage: Yif 'Y' in initial position in the line and tipped with red ink. | | |
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p |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXv-167r-WL1.jpg) | Usage: spak the descender of 'p' is at an acute angle. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-WL1-2.jpg) | Usage: Tercia pars |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-WL1-3.jpg) | Usage: vpon | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-WL1-4.jpg) | Usage: Pavyk even upper case 'P' has the same characteristics. |
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Some Upper Case Letters |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-WL2.jpg) | Usage: Ne | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-WL2-2.jpg) | Usage: Ernest |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-WL2-3.jpg) | Usage: But | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Royal17DXV-167r-WL2-4.jpg) | Usage: This |