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A |
| Usage: and single compartment 'a' is used throughout. This flat-topped variety is more common in the scribe's more formal script. | | Usage: shal a more relaxed, rounded version of 'a'. |
| Usage: Allas the scribe has several forms of upper case 'A'. | | Usage: And this version is probably the most represented. |
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D |
| Usage: dewe looped 'd' with angular lower lobe. | | Usage: And |
| Usage: goddis examples of both angular and oval lower lobes. | | Usage: Do an upper case version of the graph. |
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G |
| Usage: go tailed 'g' is used throughout on the folios examined. | | Usage: conqueryng the tail curves clockwise and may continue round to join the body of the graph. |
| Usage: rightwisnesse the horizontal slash leaves the body of the graph from the centre. | | Usage: Good the upper case version of 'G'. |
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H |
| Usage: his 'h' has a looped head-stroke arching over the top of the shoulder. The limb may curve clockwise to begin with the tail-stroke often turning counter-clockwise. | | Usage: feyth |
| Usage: thou | | Usage: Hath upper case 'H' has a distinct foot on the stem and a head-stroke which leaves the stem at an angle rather than the smooth loop of the lower case graph. |
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R |
| Usage: rightwisnesse modern 'r' is used in all positions. | | Usage: your on the two folios examined, modern 'r' was used after 'o' and there is no evidence of 'z'-shaped 'r'. |
| Usage: erre | | Usage: Right the upper case version of the graph. |
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S |
| Usage: sentence long 's' is used in initial and medial positions. | | Usage: endeles kidney-shaped 's' is used in final position. |
| Usage: worthynesse the bodies of the double long 's' merge into one another in the middle. | | Usage: So |
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W |
| Usage: werre two distinct versions of 'w' appear on the two folios examined. The distribution of the different graphs is haphazard. This version of 'w' is the cursive form with long curving approach stroke. | | Usage: wordys here 'w' is distinctly made up of two separate 'v' s. |
| Usage: now even when 'w' is within a word, the approach stroke still seems to be used making an over-sized graph. | | Usage: What a rather grander and taller cursive version at the beginning of a line. |
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Y |
| Usage: yevith the left arm of 'y' is generally a vertical stroke often with curved approach stroke to the head. | | Usage: thy the long curving tails of 'y' have an immediate visual impact when looking at an entire folio. |
| Usage: feyth sharply angled counter-clockwise turn for the tail-stroke. | | Usage: Yf upper case graph with extended left arm. |
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Upper Case Letters |
| Usage: That two versions of upper case 'T' are demonstrated here. | | Usage: To |
| Usage: But | | Usage: And |
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Chaucer Portrait |
| Usage: The portrait of Chaucer in the margin, on the folio with signature I 8. | | |
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