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A |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-a.jpg) | Usage: faire lower case double compartment 'a' is used throughout. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-a2.jpg) | Usage: Als upper case 'A' as the first letter of a line. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-a3.jpg) | Usage: And first letter of a line. | | |
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D |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-d.jpg) | Usage: kynde 'd' is looped and is a very rounded version of the graph. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-d2.jpg) | Usage: deed a really current version where it is possible to see the initiation of the hooked lower lobe and the continuation into the looped head. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-d3.jpg) | Usage: hadde | | |
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G |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-g.jpg) | Usage: goodly the 'g' graph has a vertical aspect for the upper lobe and a horizontal aspect for the lower portion of the graph. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-g2.jpg) | Usage: gladde a really angular upper compartment on this graph and a triangular lower compartment. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-g3.jpg) | Usage: God upper case 'G'. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-g4.jpg) | Usage: brought |
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H |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-h.jpg) | Usage: whiche there is almost no variation at all in 'h'. The looped head-stroke grazes the shoulder. The limb is long and straight. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-h2.jpg) | Usage: whiche the 'ch' combination. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-h3.jpg) | Usage: þorugh | | |
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R |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-r.jpg) | Usage: frende modern 'r' used in all positions in the words. The shape does not vary. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-r2.jpg) | Usage: hers 'z'-shaped 'r' used after 'o' and 'e' and several consonants. |
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S |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-s.jpg) | Usage: as most of the scribe's kidney-shaped 's's are of this loose formation. Always used in final position. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-s2.jpg) | Usage: is occasionally the scribe completes the stroke across the middle of the letter. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-s3.jpg) | Usage: sunne long 's' used initially and medially. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-s4.jpg) | Usage: So upper case 'S'. |
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W |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-w.jpg) | Usage: whiche the scribe uses this version of 'w' with double lobe to the right as well as the 'w' in version 2 where the top lobe is open. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-w2.jpg) | Usage: wiþ the scribe has formed this 'w' in a different way and uses a cross-stroke to compartmentalise the 'v'-shaped construction. The stroke is continued to join onto the next letter. |
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Y |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-y.jpg) | Usage: kynde the 'y's hardly vary at all. The tail is rarely longer than in the examples shown here. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-y2.jpg) | Usage: ynow |
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Thorn |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-WL1.jpg) | Usage: þat thorn is always used for 'th' in every position. The graph is always open at the top. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-WL1-2.jpg) | Usage: Þat thorn used at the beginning of a line with two protuberances on the descender. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-WL1-3.jpg) | Usage: Þat thorn at the beginning of a line. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-WL1-4.jpg) | Usage: Þe yet another variation on thorn used at the beginning of a line. |
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Yogh |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-WL2.jpg) | Usage: sauȝ yogh used as representative of the 'gh' sound. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-WL2-2.jpg) | Usage: ȝit yogh used as representative of the 'y' sound. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Harley3943-62v-WL2-3.jpg) | Usage: hiȝe yogh used for 'gh'. | | |