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The letters on the line above are drawn from photos of original sources. (The letter on the far right means "and".) As some letters used in modern English were not used in Latin manuscripts, I have designed the letters below for the use of calligraphers in the Current Middle Ages. If you wish to design your own letterforms to use with the authentic Anglo-¬Saxon script, remember not to make your z with a tail like a g, as the Irish did; the French used that letterform as a g!

The examples of actual 8th century Anglo-Saxon capitals below are all I could find; so using the principles displayed in their construction, I designed an upper-case alphabet to use with this script. Versals would also go well with the above script as would uncials; both were in use in this century.

Reference: Hermann Degering, Lettering, plates 39 and 40, Pentalic Corp., New York NY, 1965.

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