Fragment

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.b.25 ii

Lost manuscript
Babel MS 25
Host volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.b.25
Textual Information
Subject
Medicine
Author of work
Isaac Israeli (trans. Constantinus Africanus)
Title of work

Liber urinarum

Section

ed. [Lyon: B. Trot,] 1515, fol. clxiii-clxiv

Orientation
foot to fore-edge
Transcription

(verso, left-hand, inverted) ¦¦exierit vel non ... ad degestionem [corrected to: decocitionem] [rubricated title:] De vase in quo urina debet colligi [text:] Colligatur in vase vitreo ... medicus decipitur¦¦ ... (recto, left-hand) [mul]cotiens colligatur in multis vasis ... [rubricated title:] De tempore videndi urinam [text:] Oportet igitur ut cum ... in loco suo planius [rubricated title:] De calefaccione urine pro eius exitum [text:] Calefieri urinam ... calidam calefiat¦¦ ... (recto, right-hand)[U]rinam in morbis magnam habet ... si illaudabilis signifactio eius¦¦ ... (verso, right-hand, inverted) [lau]dabilis in colica passione ... si homo pleuresim¦¦

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Anglicana
Place of production
England
Date of production
s. xiii
s. xiii 2
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Pastedown
Fragment type detail

lifted, back

Element of folio

central bifolium of quire, all but top 4 lines

Ruling

ruled in plummet for text and gloss

Decoration

Rubrication.

Further information
Notes

On the recto there are pen trials 'huius'; on the verso are inked coats of arms with their blazons (?s. xiv).

Bibliography

POxBO, 29.

Author: James Willoughby
Colchester Harsnett H.b.25 ii recto
Colchester Harsnett H.b.25 ii verso
Dimensions
Fragment

303mm (h) x 205mm (w)

Number of lines
24
Number of columns
1 + 2 cols of gloss (texts 1 and 3) to each folio
Height of minims
2mm
Space between lines
5mm
Height of written space
127mm
Width of written space
80mm
Lower margin
71mm
Inner margin
10mm
Width of text 1
25mm
Reservation 1
3mm
Reservation 2
3mm
Width of text 3
12mm
Outer margin
18mm
Height of minims (gloss)
1mm