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A |
| Usage: an lower case 'a' is always the secretary form. | | Usage: A |
| Usage: Auees | | Usage: Pater square single compartment 'a' with horn at the head. |
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D |
| Usage: honde 'd' is mainly looped. | | Usage: hede occasionally the scribe does not loop 'd'. |
| Usage: Drede | | |
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G |
| Usage: gladnesse the scribe's secretary 'g' has the horizontal cross-stroke at the head and a reverse turn on the tail-stroke. | | Usage: ryght |
| Usage: kyng | | |
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H |
| Usage: hyr | | Usage: here it is possible to see the scribe looping up from the curving tail stroke to link to the next letter. |
| Usage: Her licence to extend the tail-stroke into the left margin. | | Usage: the 'h' on the top line. The scribe often extends the ascenders on a top line and turns the stroke at the top to form a sort of loop before the curving descender. |
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R |
| Usage: cryste modern 'r' used except after 'o' and consonants when 'z'-shaped 'r' is used. | | Usage: theyr 'r' with flourish in final position. |
| Usage: pray | | Usage: Remembryd |
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S |
| Usage: was sigma 's' used intermittently as final 's' on this folio. | | Usage: hys probably the form most favoured for final 's' on these folios. |
| Usage: Shew upper case letter at the beginning of a line. | | Usage: stodyn long 's' used initially and medially. |
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W |
| Usage: whyche | | Usage: owte |
| Usage: Wt 'W' in upper case position at the beginning of a line. | | |
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Y |
| Usage: whyche | | Usage: hys |
| Usage: away | | |
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Upper Case Letters |
| Usage: Bothe some of the scribe's upper case letters are quite distinctive as with 'B' seen here. | | Usage: Nat upper case 'N' is of simple form with a long curving approach stroke. |
| Usage: Of 'O','C' and 'E' frequently have a diagonal line through the letter. | | Usage: Toke upper case 'T' has the same bisecting stroke. The head-stroke of 'T' often curves round in a complete circle which may be the case here although difficult to see. |