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A |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-a.jpg) | Usage: and most of the scribe's lower case 'a's have a tiny extended hair-line which stands at the apex of the letter. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-a2.jpg) | Usage: Chaucers double compartment 'a' used in the scribe's display script for the rubric. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-a3.jpg) | Usage: Allas upper case 'A'. | | |
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D |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-d.jpg) | Usage: called looped 'd' with pointed lobe at the left side. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-d2.jpg) | Usage: ladders |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-d3.jpg) | Usage: Ouidi(us) the scribe's display script unlooped 'd' in an internal gloss. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-d4.jpg) | Usage: chylde occasional use of unlooped 'd' in the main text. |
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G |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-g.jpg) | Usage: myghty tailed 'g' with horned head and elegantly curved tail turning clockwise with final downward turn to finish. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-g2.jpg) | Usage: gan |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-g3.jpg) | Usage: nought the combination 'ght' with crossed 'h' following 'g'. | | |
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H |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-h.jpg) | Usage: hath 'h' usually has a foot on the stem. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-h2.jpg) | Usage: wyth 'h' is almost always crossed in the combination 'th' where the letters occur at the end of a word. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-h3.jpg) | Usage: Chaucers the scribe's 'h' in his display script. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-h4.jpg) | Usage: Here the opening 'H' of the rubric. |
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R |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-r.jpg) | Usage: rentyng modern 'r' is used sparingly. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-r2.jpg) | Usage: lenger the scribe uses 'z'-shaped 'r' in most positions in preference to modern 'r'. The 'z'-shaped 'r' does not usually have a descending tag. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-r3.jpg) | Usage: remedio 'z'-shaped 'r' in initial position in the internal Latin gloss. | | |
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S |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-s.jpg) | Usage: his kidney 's' is only used in final position. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-s2.jpg) | Usage: sondry sigma 's' is only used in initial position. Long 's' is also used occasionally initially. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-s3.jpg) | Usage: Chaucers almost an 8-shaped 's' with otiose ascending tag. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-s4.jpg) | Usage: sothe |
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W |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-w.jpg) | Usage: was a separate left limb for this graph. The angled stroke is straight and much taller than the following 'v' element but it ends above the lower level of the 'v'. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-w2.jpg) | Usage: which 'w' at the beginning of a line usually has a curving approach stroke. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-w3.jpg) | Usage: Wounded an even more elaborate example of version 2. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-w4.jpg) | Usage: wenten |
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Y |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-y.jpg) | Usage: wyfe | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-y2.jpg) | Usage: ryche 'y' is occasionally dotted. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-y3.jpg) | Usage: crye 'y' with a more curved tail. The scribe's 'y's do not usually trace such a wide curve. | | |
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Marks |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-WL1.jpg) | Usage: myghty this mark appears over two of the 'y's on the top line. However, it also appears in other places on the folio so is not a feature of display on the top line. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-WL1-2.jpg) | Usage: begyneth another mark which appears here above 'y'. It would seem possible that it could be a macron for an extra 'n' in this word. However, see version 3. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-WL1-3.jpg) | Usage: myghty it is difficult to see what purpose is served by this mark over 'myghty'. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-WL1-4.jpg) | Usage: wyth amyable again there seems no reason for the mark to appear in this position. |
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Upper Case Letters |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-WL2.jpg) | Usage: Chaucers all the upper case letters shown here have an extra curving stroke within the body of the graph itself. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-WL2-2.jpg) | Usage: Prudence |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-WL2-3.jpg) | Usage: This | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Pepys2006-1-WL2-4.jpg) | Usage: Ouide |