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Letter Forms: Variant and New Letters
The most striking new form is the 'back to front' e. | |||
This can be disconcerting when it is used after an n or m minim: the tendency is to count the upswing before the e as an extra minim. This word reads dome. | |||
This scribe uses two forms of g, the Secretary form with the horns and the Gothic bookhand form, apparently randomly. |
There are now three forms of s, two short and one long. The new version has a lower closed loop and a top open one. It looks like an open padlock. | |||
And three forms of r. The down- and upstrokes of the second one are separated, making it look almost like a v. Version 3 has a longer descender, which will become pronounced in other versions of Secretary. The 2-shaped r following curved and bowed letters has however disappeared from this hand. |
This scribe prefers the vernacular English letter ž, though on occasion he alternates it with th | ||
He only uses y once on this page, in the word matrimoyne, 'matrimony'. |
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