Hand: Early Corrector (e.g. pp. 174, 198), CCCC 162, pp. 1–138, 161–564

Stokes, English Vernacular Script, ca 990–ca 1035, Vol. 2 (PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006)

Some were made by at least one scribe who worked before the marginal and interlinear additions were entered. This scribe wrote with a fine pen and a very dark ink. His strokes are fairly rounded and his ascenders long, although descenders are typically quite short. Minims have thick approach-strokes which verge on wedges, not unlike Style-IV Anglo-Caroline, and prominent rising feet. Some letters, particularly f, r, s, and medial e, are very narrow, but a, h, o, m, and n are quite wide. The top of a is fairly flat, but the body bulges outwards. Tall s was used before p, but low s was used finally. The body of g is fairly rounded, as is the tail which is closed by a very faint hairline. Straight-limbed dotted y was used. Medial e has a vertical back, a small eye, and a sharply rising tongue, but when final the letter can be wider, the hook more angular, the tongue horizontal, and the lower curve reaching up to join the tongue beyond the hook (clypode, p. 6/2). The scribe used þ in preference to ð (lyþran, p. 7/16). The back of d is either horizontal or short and straight but angled at about 30°. The top-stroke of 7 is rising but essentially straight, and the down-stroke essentially vertical.