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A |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-a.jpg) | Usage: quarters single compartment 'a' used as the lower case graph. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-a2.jpg) | Usage: abilite |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-a3.jpg) | Usage: astrolabie the scribe's hand is not particularly neat and his letter formation is not consistent. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-a4.jpg) | Usage: And swiftly formed upper case 'A'. |
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D |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-d.jpg) | Usage: doth 'd' is actually fairly consistently formed, usually with upper loop slightly in advance of the lower lobe. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-d2.jpg) | Usage: altitude a more angular lobe with reverse pen-turned top to the descender rather than a completed loop. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-d3.jpg) | Usage: altitudes | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-d4.jpg) | Usage: chyldryn |
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G |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-g.jpg) | Usage: gret flat-topped tailed 'g' with minimal tail-stroke. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-g2.jpg) | Usage: ygeuen |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-g3.jpg) | Usage: ap(er)teynyng 'g' in final position with tiny downward flick at the end of the horizontal extension. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-g4.jpg) | Usage: towchyng |
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H |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-h.jpg) | Usage: haue wide head-loop with shoulder and limb descending from the centre of the loop. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-h2.jpg) | Usage: philosophie strangely, both 'h's in this word have the head-stroke as a horizontal line. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-h3.jpg) | Usage: þrogh when 'h' follows 'g' it is usually crossed. However on each occasion where 'h' follows 'g', the body of 'h' has become obliterated with ink. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-h4.jpg) | Usage: shynyng |
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R |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-r.jpg) | Usage: rekne the link to the shoulder of 'r' springs from line level which is at the lower level of surrounding graphs. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-r2.jpg) | Usage: quarters |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-r3.jpg) | Usage: befor 'r' in final position is flourished, perhaps to indicate a missing final 'e'. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-r4.jpg) | Usage: prayerys |
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S |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-s.jpg) | Usage: science the thick head of the descender protrudes above the initiation of the curved head-stroke. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-s2.jpg) | Usage: as kidney-shaped 's' is used in final position as is sigma 's'. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-s3.jpg) | Usage: prayerys the alternation of the two 's' graphs in final position is random. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-s4.jpg) | Usage: shyne scooped head-stroke to link on to following 'h'. |
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W |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-w.jpg) | Usage: world 'w' is always of the same formation with two thick, fairly straight limbs whose heads turn towards the right. There is a single lobe as the final element. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-w2.jpg) | Usage: nowmbre |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-w3.jpg) | Usage: wt the scribe uses abbreviations for 'that' and 'with'. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-w4.jpg) | Usage: |
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Y |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-y.jpg) | Usage: Lytyl the tail of 'y' is usually of generous length and curvature. However, see version 4. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-y2.jpg) | Usage: preyer |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-y3.jpg) | Usage: slyly | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-y4.jpg) | Usage: very another example of the over-inking which causes blobs of ink to infill the body of some graphs. |
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Thorn and Yogh |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-WL1.jpg) | Usage: boþe thorn is used frequently in all situations. It usually has a straight tapering stem as in this example. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-28r-WL1-2.jpg) | Usage: wheþ(er) the scribe curves the stem of thorn in this example. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-WL1-3.jpg) | Usage: oriȝont a single example of yogh on the two folios examined. Here used as representative of 'z'. | | |
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Upper Case Letters |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-WL2.jpg) | Usage: Than there are few upper case letters in the text but 'T' does occur quite frequently. It is always formed as in this example. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-WL2-2.jpg) | Usage: I the scribe has two forms of 'i'. In this example the scribe uses a curved approach stroke to the head and adds a separate dot to the right of the shaft. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-WL2-3.jpg) | Usage: Bred first initial of the title with loss of the corner of the paper leaf which now shows the repair. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Aberdeen123-10v-WL2-4.jpg) | Usage: I the second version of the scribe's 'I' with looped and hooked head stroke. |