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A |
| Usage: at 'a' is always double compartment with straight sides and angled hairline at the left side of the head. | | Usage: waaste |
| Usage: And upper case 'A' with 2-shaped element to begin. | | Usage: And occasionally there is a shadow stroke to the right of the main down-stroke. It is not seen in this example, perhaps because as the initial letter of a line it would be slashed with red. |
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D |
| Usage: dyuersite this is the most usual form of 'd' although as will be seen in the following examples, the scribe uses his imagination at times. | | Usage: heede looped head on 'd'. |
| Usage: liddes long wavy strokes rather than the usual short angled one for the final down-stroke. | | Usage: De an elaborate upper case 'D' in the gloss. |
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G |
| Usage: be'greued 'g' is tailed with a tail turning clockwise and extending in a long horizontal line which extends beneath previous graphs. | | Usage: bleding final 'g' with extra tag extending above the graph and ending with a diamond shape. This may be the scribe's method of indicating a missing final 'e'. However, the same tag is also used as the 'dot' for 'y'. |
| Usage: grustels | | Usage: dyuers gobettes |
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H |
| Usage: hele 'h' is usually neatly contained with straight limb ending with a small flick to the left. | | Usage: Englissche after 'c' , 'h' is normally crossed. |
| Usage: nought | | Usage: cheekes the scribe frequently adds fine otiose loops or lines to several graphs as decoration. |
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R |
| Usage: rounde the 'r' and the 'o' blend together in this example. | | Usage: oþir final 'r' with fine otiose stroke merely for decoration. |
| Usage: for 'z'-shaped 'r' almost always has an otiose loop beneath the graph. | | Usage: cheere |
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S |
| Usage: serue long 's' is used in initial and medial positions. It frequently has a number of 'fins' on the left side. The number varies and this example is rather overcrowded with them. | | Usage: lymes kidney-shaped 's' in final position. |
| Usage: mooste could be mistaken for an 'f' since the cross-bar of 't' bisects the stem of 's'. | | Usage: suffiseþ a wing to begin the first long 's' and another heavily finned example. |
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W |
| Usage: we 'w' is consistently formed throughout. | | Usage: colowre 'w' is the same size as the graphs on either side. |
| Usage: twey | | Usage: iknowe |
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Y |
| Usage: ynne 'y' is almost always dotted. The body is square-shaped and the tail is usually short and straight with no return. | | Usage: þey |
| Usage: Þey probably the only example on this folio where the tail of 'y' turns counter-clockwise. | | Usage: yȝen |
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Thorn and Yogh |
| Usage: neþir thorn is used frequently. | | Usage: comeþ the stem of thorn is thick and straight with no taper. The lobe is a box-like addition. |
| Usage: ȝif yogh is used as equivalent of both the 'y' and 'gh' elements. | | Usage: hyȝe |
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Upper Case Letters |
| Usage: But | | Usage: Constantine |
| Usage: Neþeles a rather tortured upper case 'N'. | | Usage: Þe upper case Thorn with more fin decoration of the stem. |