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A |
| Usage: bakbite double compartment 'a' is used throughout. | | Usage: falsenesse the hairline closing stroke across the head is sometimes difficult to see. |
| Usage: Al this 'A' appears at the beginning of a line and may be a variant on the example shown in version 4. | | Usage: And possibly the more usual shape for the scribe's upper case 'A's. |
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D |
| Usage: dispyce looped 'd' is used throughout. The lower lobe is generally rounded. | | Usage: grauntid the upper loop is usually quite large compared with the lobe. |
| Usage: mede biting between the 'd' and following 'e'. | | Usage: Erledom |
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G |
| Usage: grau(n)tteþ 'g' is anglicana generally comprising two rounded compartments. | | Usage: chidyng the lower compartment is often slightly in advance of the upper compartment. |
| Usage: brogages | | Usage: Glotony a degraded portion of the folio but just possible to see the scribe's upper case 'G'. |
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H |
| Usage: haþ the head-loop of 'h' is generally triangular in shape and extends beyond the line of the shoulder. | | Usage: hit the limb may be straight or curved. There may be either a small flick or a wider curve of the tail-stroke counter-clockwise. |
| Usage: schow | | Usage: hir |
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R |
| Usage: rede long 'r' is used in all positions. | | Usage: ber |
| Usage: brogages 'z'-shaped 'r' is used after 'o' and other round-bodied graphs. | | Usage: Ire |
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S |
| Usage: seyed both sigma 's' and long 's' are used in initial position. | | Usage: symony |
| Usage: fals sigma 's' is also used in final position. | | Usage: Sciant the scribe's upper case graph at the beginning of the Latin heading which is underlined in red ink. |
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W |
| Usage: wot the shape of 'w' is usually the same. The head may be looped or left open. | | Usage: schow |
| Usage: wittenesse | | Usage: Witten a slightly more impressive graph as the upper case letter. |
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Y |
| Usage: ydel 'y' does not vary very much. It may be dotted or undotted. | | Usage: envy the dotted version in final position. |
| Usage: symony the angle of the tail turning counter-clockwise is similar in all examples. | | Usage: fasteyndayes |
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Thorn and Yogh |
| Usage: þei thorn is used quite frequently, not only in the usual places but also as replacement of 'th'. | | Usage: haþ |
| Usage: þoȝthes yogh is only used a couple of times on this folio as equivalent to 'gh'. | | Usage: sleȝthes |