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A |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-a.jpg) | Usage: man 'a' may have an oval compartment as here or a more squarish one as in version 2. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-a2.jpg) | Usage: at when 'a' is in initial position the lead-in to the left stroke is sometimes visible below the hairline connecting stroke. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-a3.jpg) | Usage: And upper case 'A' from the rubric between tales. This is the basic shape for the scribe's upper case letter. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-a4.jpg) | Usage: And here 'A' has a looped addition to the left of the head of the graph. |
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D |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-d.jpg) | Usage: and the most usual shape for 'd' with pointed lobe and elegant arched ascender. When in final position, 'd' is usually accompanied by an exaggerated otiose flourish. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-d2.jpg) | Usage: dropped the scribe occasionally uses a looped 'd' more usually when 'd' is the final letter in a word. The loop arches back over several graphs. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-d3.jpg) | Usage: told display script of the scribe which begins tales and prologues. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-d4.jpg) | Usage: riden |
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G |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-g.jpg) | Usage: hight the scribe's very distinctive 'hooked g'. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-g2.jpg) | Usage: Prolog 'g' in the hand of the scribe in the rubric. The familiar hook is seen at the extremity of the tail-stroke and horizontal extension with long descending tag attached. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-g3.jpg) | Usage: God upper case 'G' tipped with red ink. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70r-g4.jpg) | Usage: god |
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H |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-h.jpg) | Usage: hatte the limb of 'h' sits on the line with almost no tail-stroke at all. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-h2.jpg) | Usage: hight where the scribe has sufficient space, as here at the end of a line with no text above, he extends the stem of 'h'. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-h3.jpg) | Usage: Hiere upper case 'H'. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-h4.jpg) | Usage: His the first word of the folio hence an even more elaborate 'H'. |
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R |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-r.jpg) | Usage: ride 'z'-shaped 'r' used most of the time in all positions both with and without curving otiose stroke. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-r2.jpg) | Usage: crist modern 'r' used occasionally. The stem of 'r' is gently curved and the shoulder stroke leaves the stem near the top. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-r3.jpg) | Usage: array | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-r4.jpg) | Usage: somer rod 'z'-shaped 'r' ends one word and begins another. |
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S |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-s.jpg) | Usage: seintes sigma 's' always used in final position with otiose stroke characteristic of this hand. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-s2.jpg) | Usage: swete long 's' is used initially and medially. The letter is very similar to the scribe's 'f' and is almost always a split stroke with open space between the main stroke and hairline connector at the top of the letter. Long 's' rarely descends far below the line. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-s3.jpg) | Usage: Seint upper case 'S' in couchant position within the text. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-s4.jpg) | Usage: Seint the first letter of a stanza and much more like a modern 'S'. |
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W |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-w.jpg) | Usage: werche 'w' within the text is consistently this shape. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-w2.jpg) | Usage: What upper case letter at the beginning of a line with arching approach stroke beginning beneath the body of the letter itself. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-w3.jpg) | Usage: Whan upper case 'W' with strapwork decoration to begin a new tale. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-w4.jpg) | Usage: was display script of the scribe for the opening line. |
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Y |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-y.jpg) | Usage: hakeney the scribe uses two forms of 'y'. In this example the tail is in the form of a wavy line extending below the body of the letter. This is the form used most frequently. The letter either has a curved stroke above as in this example, a dot, or nothing at all. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-y2.jpg) | Usage: grys the scribe also uses a more conventional 'y' with tail curving to the right usually as a fine hairline stroke. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCr3.3-70-y3.jpg) | Usage: Ye the first word of a line. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70-y4.jpg) | Usage: Yoman a word in the introductory rubric. |
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Upper Case Letters |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70r-WL1.jpg) | Usage: Boughton an elaborate form of 'B' which resembles a yogh with a number 2 attached at the front. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70r-WL1-2.jpg) | Usage: Vrban arched left arm of 'V' with hooked foot shaped as in the hook on the end of the tail of 'g'. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-70r-WL1-3.jpg) | Usage: Prolog elaborate upper case 'P' in the rubric. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-76r-WL1-4.jpg) | Usage: Discret |
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Yogh |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-76r-WL2.jpg) | Usage: douȝtern yogh is used at whim. In some places it occurs in clusters, in others, where one might expect the use of yogh, the scribe does not use it. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-76r-WL2-2.jpg) | Usage: Inouȝ as final letter in the word it attracts the usual otiose attachment. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-76r-WL2-3.jpg) | Usage: riȝt | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/CambTCR3.3-76r-WL2-4.jpg) | Usage: thouȝ |