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A |
| Usage: a single compartment secretary 'a' is used throughout. | | Usage: and |
| Usage: And upper case initial letter of a line. | | Usage: As upper case 'A' as the first letter of the top line showing exaggerated extension. |
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D |
| Usage: called unlooped 'd' is the preferred graph, though the scribe has looped 'd' in his repertoire.. | | Usage: hadde 'd' is often ligatured to a following 'e'. |
| Usage: pound 'd' in final position, looped and with flourish. | | Usage: freendys |
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G |
| Usage: god tailed 'g' is the prferred graph. | | Usage: agayn note the tail curving back on itself with reverse flick. |
| Usage: Prologg the last two letters of the word 'Prologg' written in a quasi-display script used for explicit and incipit. | | |
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H |
| Usage: haddist the head-loop does not make contact with the shoulder. | | Usage: THer 'H' as upper case letter in the word 'THer' which begins the Physician's Tale. The scribe is fond of extending the stems of some graphs on the top line. |
| Usage: sauh a cross bar occurs on the 'h' at the end of this word. | | Usage: forth an 'h' with similar crossing feature which occurs on the top line of the folio, hence the elaborated stem. |
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R |
| Usage: purveaunce modern 'r' used throughout in every position. | | Usage: Lordynges this is a well-formed example of the scribe's 'z'-shaped 'r' which is often much looser in construction. |
| Usage: rychesse 'z'-shaped 'r' here seen as the initial letter of the word. It is set higher than the letter which follows it. | | Usage: Relece upper case 'R' as the initial letter. |
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S |
| Usage: was kidney-shaped 's' used in final position. | | Usage: thousand long 's' often neatly hooked over at the top. Used in initial and medial positions. |
| Usage: Sire upper case 's' at the beginning of a line. | | Usage: rychesse in 'ss' and 'ff' the first letter is lower than the second and the stem splays out to the left. |
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W |
| Usage: walked 'w' in initial position. | | Usage: now |
| Usage: Now wol 'w's on the top line again giving the scribe the opportunity to extend the initial stroke. | | Usage: Wyth upper case 'W' as the first letter of a line. |
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Y |
| Usage: y the scribe varies the tail stroke of 'y'. It is either thin and barely curved as in this version, or with more conventional curve as in version 2. | | Usage: fayle |
| Usage: lyf | | Usage: you occasionally the left fork of 'y' is much longer than the right. |
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I |
| Usage: It upper case 'I' is individual. The scribe has a more conventional shape (as in version 4), but this form is found on several occasions on the two folios examined. | | Usage: I wept |
| Usage: I holde | | Usage: I |
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Lead-in stroke |
| Usage: no the scribe almost always uses a long curved lead-in stroke to 'n', 'm', 'w', 'N'. | | Usage: mote |
| Usage: wynter | | Usage: Now |