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| Current Manuscript: | Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 424 Part 4 |
| Folios: | Part 4 ff1-41 |
| Sampled Folios: | 4r |
| Example Page: | Display a full page showing this scribe's hand |
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| A | |||
 | Usage: altitude double compartment 'a' used throughout. |  | Usage: nadyr |
 | Usage: planet |  | Usage: wha(n) the scribe frequently misses the final 'n' in a word and replaces it with a macron over the 'a'. |
| D | |||
 | Usage: degr(e) unlooped 'd' is used on this folio. |  | 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. |
 | Usage: altitude sometimes 'd' is ligatured with a following 'e'. Sometimes, as here, it stands alone. |  | Usage: lodowyco 'd' with red ink highlight as the name of Chaucer's son. |
| G | |||
 | 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. |  | 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. |
 | Usage: begy(n)ny(n)g the same word as in version two but this time the scribe uses an anglicana graph. |  | 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. |
| H | |||
 | Usage: his |  | Usage: howse an extended headloop on this graph. |
 | 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. |  | Usage: Chaunsers the ascription to Chaucer's son Lewis. |
| R | |||
 | Usage: ryȝte long 'r' is used as well as 'z'-shaped 'r'. |  | Usage: wher(e) 'r' in final position always has the exaggerated flourish where an 'e' would be expected. |
 | Usage: forþward |  | Usage: nadyr 'z'-shaped 'r' is used not only after 'o'. |
| S | |||
 | Usage: same long 's' is used in initial and medial positions. |  | Usage: is sigma 's' in final position. |
 | Usage: shall 's' with head-sroke looping on to the following 'h'. |  | 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? |
| W | |||
 | Usage: well the simple form of 'w' which is used throughout. |  | Usage: how 'w' in final position. |
 | Usage: howse 'w' in the middle of a word. |  | Usage: lodowyco |
| Y | |||
 | Usage: p(er)ceyve |  | Usage: þy |
 | Usage: syde |  | Usage: bygy(n)ny(n)g |
| Thorn and Yogh | |||
 | Usage: þa(n) thorn is used everywhere abundantly. It varies little from the 'p' graph. |  | Usage: asce(n)deþ thorn used for the ending of a present tense verb. |
 | Usage: ryȝte yogh is used as representative of the 'gh' sound. |  | Usage: oriȝonte yogh is also used as the 'z' sound in this word. |