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A |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-a.jpg) | Usage: at 'a' is always double compartment with straight sides and angled hairline at the left side of the head. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-a2.jpg) | Usage: waaste |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-a3.jpg) | Usage: And upper case 'A' with 2-shaped element to begin. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-a4.jpg) | 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 |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-d.jpg) | 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. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-d2.jpg) | Usage: heede looped head on 'd'. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-d3.jpg) | Usage: liddes long wavy strokes rather than the usual short angled one for the final down-stroke. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-d4.jpg) | Usage: De an elaborate upper case 'D' in the gloss. |
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G |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-g.jpg) | Usage: be'greued 'g' is tailed with a tail turning clockwise and extending in a long horizontal line which extends beneath previous graphs. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-g2.jpg) | 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'. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-g3.jpg) | Usage: grustels | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-g4.jpg) | Usage: dyuers gobettes |
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H |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-h.jpg) | Usage: hele 'h' is usually neatly contained with straight limb ending with a small flick to the left. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-h2.jpg) | Usage: Englissche after 'c' , 'h' is normally crossed. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-h3.jpg) | Usage: nought | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-h4.jpg) | Usage: cheekes the scribe frequently adds fine otiose loops or lines to several graphs as decoration. |
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R |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-r.jpg) | Usage: rounde the 'r' and the 'o' blend together in this example. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-r2.jpg) | Usage: oþir final 'r' with fine otiose stroke merely for decoration. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-r3.jpg) | Usage: for 'z'-shaped 'r' almost always has an otiose loop beneath the graph. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-r4.jpg) | Usage: cheere |
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S |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-s.jpg) | 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. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-s2.jpg) | Usage: lymes kidney-shaped 's' in final position. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-s3.jpg) | Usage: mooste could be mistaken for an 'f' since the cross-bar of 't' bisects the stem of 's'. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-s4.jpg) | Usage: suffiseþ a wing to begin the first long 's' and another heavily finned example. |
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W |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-w.jpg) | Usage: we 'w' is consistently formed throughout. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-w2.jpg) | Usage: colowre 'w' is the same size as the graphs on either side. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-w3.jpg) | Usage: twey | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-w4.jpg) | Usage: iknowe |
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Y |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-y.jpg) | Usage: ynne 'y' is almost always dotted. The body is square-shaped and the tail is usually short and straight with no return. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-y2.jpg) | Usage: þey |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-y3.jpg) | Usage: Þey probably the only example on this folio where the tail of 'y' turns counter-clockwise. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-y4.jpg) | Usage: yȝen |
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Thorn and Yogh |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-WL1.jpg) | Usage: neþir thorn is used frequently. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-WL1-2.jpg) | Usage: comeþ the stem of thorn is thick and straight with no taper. The lobe is a box-like addition. |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-WL1-3.jpg) | Usage: ȝif yogh is used as equivalent of both the 'y' and 'gh' elements. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-WL1-4.jpg) | Usage: hyȝe |
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Upper Case Letters |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-WL2.jpg) | Usage: But | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-WL2-2.jpg) | Usage: Constantine |
![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-WL2-3.jpg) | Usage: Neþeles a rather tortured upper case 'N'. | ![](https://www.dhi.ac.uk/san/medievalscribes/images/BodeMus16-8v-WL2-4.jpg) | Usage: Þe upper case Thorn with more fin decoration of the stem. |