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A |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-4r-IV-a.jpg) | Usage: altitude double compartment 'a' used throughout. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-a2.jpg) | Usage: nadyr |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-a3.jpg) | Usage: planet | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-a4.jpg) | Usage: wha(n) the scribe frequently misses the final 'n' in a word and replaces it with a macron over the 'a'. |
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D |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-d.jpg) | Usage: degr(e) unlooped 'd' is used on this folio. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-d2.jpg) | Usage: secu(n)d looped 'd' is always used when 'd' is in final position with descending curved tag attached to the extended loop-stroke. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-d3.jpg) | Usage: altitude sometimes 'd' is ligatured with a following 'e'. Sometimes, as here, it stands alone. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-d4.jpg) | Usage: lodowyco 'd' with red ink highlight as the name of Chaucer's son. |
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G |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-g.jpg) | Usage: gooddouble compartment 'g' is used as well as tailed 'g' occasionally. The lower compartment often appears to be slightly in advance of the upper compartment. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-g2.jpg) | Usage: begy(n)nyng tailed 'g' in final position with flourish back over the top of the graph and an extension of the crossed head-stroke. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-g3.jpg) | Usage: begy(n)ny(n)g the same word as in version two but this time the scribe uses an anglicana graph. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-g4.jpg) | Usage: begy(n)ny(n)g 'g' is often set low with the top of the upper compartment sometimes slightly lower than surrounding graphs. This gives an eneven aspect to the upper level of the scribe's words. |
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H |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-h.jpg) | Usage: his | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-h2.jpg) | Usage: howse an extended headloop on this graph. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-h3.jpg) | Usage: wha(n) there are few 'h's which are not in initial position because of the use of thorn for 'th' on every occasion. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-h4.jpg) | Usage: Chaunsers the ascription to Chaucer's son Lewis. |
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R |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-r.jpg) | Usage: ryȝte long 'r' is used as well as 'z'-shaped 'r'. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-r2.jpg) | Usage: wher(e) 'r' in final position always has the exaggerated flourish where an 'e' would be expected. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-r3.jpg) | Usage: forþward | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-r4.jpg) | Usage: nadyr 'z'-shaped 'r' is used not only after 'o'. |
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S |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-s.jpg) | Usage: same long 's' is used in initial and medial positions. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-s2.jpg) | Usage: is sigma 's' in final position. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-s3.jpg) | Usage: shall 's' with head-sroke looping on to the following 'h'. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-s4.jpg) | Usage: Chaunsers kidney-shaped 's' used in final position, perhaps an attempt on the scribe's behalf to give the author's name more prominence? |
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W |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-w.jpg) | Usage: well the simple form of 'w' which is used throughout. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-w2.jpg) | Usage: how 'w' in final position. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-w3.jpg) | Usage: howse 'w' in the middle of a word. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-w4.jpg) | Usage: lodowyco |
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Y |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-y.jpg) | Usage: p(er)ceyve | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-y2.jpg) | Usage: þy |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-y3.jpg) | Usage: syde | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-y4.jpg) | Usage: bygy(n)ny(n)g |
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Thorn and Yogh |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-WL1.jpg) | Usage: þa(n) thorn is used everywhere abundantly. It varies little from the 'p' graph. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-WL1-2.jpg) | Usage: asce(n)deþ thorn used for the ending of a present tense verb. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-WL1-3.jpg) | Usage: ryȝte yogh is used as representative of the 'gh' sound. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambCCC424-IV-4r-WL1-4.jpg) | Usage: oriȝonte yogh is also used as the 'z' sound in this word. |