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A |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-a.jpg) | Usage: aftir single compartment 'a' used throughout. The scribe's hand is very even and there is little variation in letter form. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-a2.jpg) | Usage: bataile the second 'a' graph in this word. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-a3.jpg) | Usage: Ageyn single compartment upper case 'A' at the beginning of a line. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-a4.jpg) | Usage: And the first word of the folio so a slightly bigger graph. |
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D |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-d.jpg) | Usage: dispende the initial 'd' of this word. Looped 'd' is used throughout. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-d2.jpg) | Usage: gode |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-d3.jpg) | Usage: De the first word of the rubric in the hand of the scribe and the ink of the text. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-d4.jpg) | Usage: Descendid upper case letter at the beginning of a line. |
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G |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-g.jpg) | Usage: grace the scribe's hand is neat and compact. There is little variation in any of his graphs. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-g2.jpg) | Usage: stronge double compartment 'g' is used throughout. There is generally an overhang from the stroke at the right side of the lower compartment which is square in appearance. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-g3.jpg) | Usage: Reg(is?) marginal Latin gloss. | | |
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H |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-h.jpg) | Usage: swiche the majority of the scribe's 'h' graphs are as in the example here. The head-stroke is rounded, the limb extends from the shoulder in a thick curve followed by a hairline to extend the stroke and pressure from flattened quill to form a finishing dot. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-h2.jpg) | Usage: knyghthode almost the only example on this folio of 'h' which does not finish the tail as in version 1 above. The head-strokes descend at an angle here rather than the usual rounded form. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-h3.jpg) | Usage: His the upper case letter is the same as the lower case example. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-h4.jpg) | Usage: myghte 'ght' combination. The only other example apart from version 2 where the tail-stroke does not end with a dot. |
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R |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-r.jpg) | Usage: grete modern 'r' is used in initial and medial positions. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-r2.jpg) | Usage: your long 'r' is used in final position, sometimes, as here, with flourish. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-r3.jpg) | Usage: lordshippes 'z'-shaped 'r' follows 'o'. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-r4.jpg) | Usage: Regis |
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S |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-s.jpg) | Usage: lyfles kidney 's' is always used in final position. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-s2.jpg) | Usage: Regis the only 8-shaped 's' on this folio occurs in the Latin rubric. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-s3.jpg) | Usage: Descendid long 's' is used in initial and medial positions. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-s4.jpg) | Usage: euennesse where 'ss' is used, the first graph is always shorter than the second. |
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W |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-w.jpg) | Usage: rowne there is very little variation in the scribe's loop-headed 'w' graph. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-w2.jpg) | Usage: alwey occasionally the two limbs of the graph are not so close together and the second limb stands a little higher than the first. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-w3.jpg) | Usage: ouerthwerte | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-w4.jpg) | Usage: Whiche the initial letter of the line so it could be the scribe's upper case graph. It is exactly the same as the lower case examples. |
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Y |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-y.jpg) | Usage: Ageyn again the 'y' graph is very consistently formed. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-y2.jpg) | Usage: lynage |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-y3.jpg) | Usage: Yee the first letter of the line so perhaps the upper case version. Again, there is no difference between upper and lower case versions. | | |
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Thorn |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-WL1.jpg) | Usage: þerto a distinctive hairline approach to the short angled stroke which initiates the descender. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-WL1-2.jpg) | Usage: worþi the stem is thick but tapers as it descends. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-WL1-3.jpg) | Usage: Þat | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-WL1-4.jpg) | Usage: Þee |
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Upper Case Letters |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-WL2.jpg) | Usage: O | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-WL2-2.jpg) | Usage: My |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-WL2-3.jpg) | Usage: If 'I' has the same hairline approach to the angled head-stroke as the scribe's thorn graph. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/Douce158-68v-WL2-4.jpg) | Usage: Promote both lower and upper case 'P' also have the hairline approach stroke to an angled head-stroke before scribing the descender. |