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A |
| Usage: altitude double compartment 'a' used throughout. | | Usage: nadyr |
| Usage: planet | | Usage: wha(n) the scribe frequently misses the final 'n' in a word and replaces it with a macron over the 'a'. |
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D |
| Usage: degr(e) unlooped 'd' is used on this folio. | | Usage: secu(n)d looped 'd' is always used when 'd' is in final position with descending curved tag attached to the extended loop-stroke. |
| Usage: altitude sometimes 'd' is ligatured with a following 'e'. Sometimes, as here, it stands alone. | | Usage: lodowyco 'd' with red ink highlight as the name of Chaucer's son. |
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G |
| Usage: gooddouble compartment 'g' is used as well as tailed 'g' occasionally. The lower compartment often appears to be slightly in advance of the upper compartment. | | Usage: begy(n)nyng tailed 'g' in final position with flourish back over the top of the graph and an extension of the crossed head-stroke. |
| Usage: begy(n)ny(n)g the same word as in version two but this time the scribe uses an anglicana graph. | | Usage: begy(n)ny(n)g 'g' is often set low with the top of the upper compartment sometimes slightly lower than surrounding graphs. This gives an eneven aspect to the upper level of the scribe's words. |
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H |
| Usage: his | | Usage: howse an extended headloop on this graph. |
| Usage: wha(n) there are few 'h's which are not in initial position because of the use of thorn for 'th' on every occasion. | | Usage: Chaunsers the ascription to Chaucer's son Lewis. |
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R |
| Usage: ryȝte long 'r' is used as well as 'z'-shaped 'r'. | | Usage: wher(e) 'r' in final position always has the exaggerated flourish where an 'e' would be expected. |
| Usage: forþward | | Usage: nadyr 'z'-shaped 'r' is used not only after 'o'. |
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S |
| Usage: same long 's' is used in initial and medial positions. | | Usage: is sigma 's' in final position. |
| Usage: shall 's' with head-sroke looping on to the following 'h'. | | Usage: Chaunsers kidney-shaped 's' used in final position, perhaps an attempt on the scribe's behalf to give the author's name more prominence? |
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W |
| Usage: well the simple form of 'w' which is used throughout. | | Usage: how 'w' in final position. |
| Usage: howse 'w' in the middle of a word. | | Usage: lodowyco |
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Y |
| Usage: p(er)ceyve | | Usage: þy |
| Usage: syde | | Usage: bygy(n)ny(n)g |
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Thorn and Yogh |
| Usage: þa(n) thorn is used everywhere abundantly. It varies little from the 'p' graph. | | Usage: asce(n)deþ thorn used for the ending of a present tense verb. |
| Usage: ryȝte yogh is used as representative of the 'gh' sound. | | Usage: oriȝonte yogh is also used as the 'z' sound in this word. |