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A |
| Usage: atteineth the scribe alternates this secretary letter with the oversized anglicana version seen in the next example. | | Usage: man |
| Usage: And the scribe's upper case 'A' bisected by the brown ink frame line. | | Usage: alway |
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D |
| Usage: done lower case 'd' is looped and shows little variation. | | Usage: mevid 'd' in final position with tag. |
| Usage: dayes | | Usage: dauid |
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G |
| Usage: diligence | | Usage: wrong 'g' with flourish perhaps representative of missing 'e', although the scribe has a propensity to attach such a flourish to final 't', 'n', 'm' and 'r'. |
| Usage: god the impression of this scribal hand is of one copying in haste. The lower compartment does not connect with the upper. | | Usage: Gera upper case 'G' |
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H |
| Usage: hert | | Usage: peyneth in the combinations 'ch', 'th' and 'ght', 'h' is always crossed. |
| Usage: brought here the backward flourish from 't' acts as the cross for the 'h'. | | Usage: Her the tail-stroke of 'H' continues well into the margin. |
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R |
| Usage: restreyneth long 'r' is used in all positions. | | Usage: for 'z'-shaped 'r' used after 'o' but not on every occasion. See version 3 below. |
| Usage: for long 'r' in final position with flourish. | | Usage: GRegory the 'R' comes after the pen-flourished capital. It may or may not be an upper case letter. In this scribal hand it is difficult to tell. |
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S |
| Usage: as kidney-shaped 's' used in final position always with a vertical descending tag attached. | | Usage: suffraunce long 's' used inially and medially. Sometimes, as here, there is a short stroke from the middle of the descender which joins to the next graph. |
| Usage: dissese although the 's' graph on the left is much shorter than the one on the right, they both end at the same level beneath the line. | | Usage: Sone |
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W |
| Usage: Now the scribe's 'w' graph is consistently formed with the top of the middle limb arched back to join the left. | | Usage: way |
| Usage: worthines there is always a 'B'-shaped element to the right. | | Usage: Whos the upper case graph is formed in the same way as the lower case one. |
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Y |
| Usage: verrey the tail of 'y' can be almost a straight line as here, with just a slight turn at the end. | | Usage: way |
| Usage: dayes the tail here is a gentle curve. | | Usage: mych the tail of 'y' can also have a much longer right extension. |
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Thorn and Yogh |
| Usage: þt thorn is frequently used with a superscript abbreviation. | | Usage: þe the scribe's thorn looks much more like a 'y' than his 'y' does. Thorn is also used for the present tense singular verb endings. |
| Usage: Ȝaff yogh used as equivalent to 'y' and to 'gh' occasionally. | | Usage: ȝet |
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Upper Case Letters |
| Usage: And the fussiness of the scribe's hand is well illustrated by his messy upper case graphs. | | Usage: Now |
| Usage: The | | Usage: Socrates |
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More Upper Case Letters |
| Usage: Is | | Usage: Off |
| Usage: But | | Usage: Let |
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Penwork |
| Usage: The paragraph marks which may have been added by the scribe himself are worthy of notice. | | Usage: The paraphs in either blue or red mark the beginning of each stanza and are attached to horizontal red lines which also divide the stanzas. |
| Usage: The penwork flourished initial 'G'. | | Usage: The blue wavy line which acts as a marker for the red ink Latin glosses in the hand of the scribe which are copied into the right margin in blocks. |