Fragment

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.c.11 i

Host volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.c.11
Textual Information
Subject
Theology
Title of work

Sermones

Section

On ?Galatians 6:4 (end), and Isaiah 52:13 (opening)

Orientation
upright
Transcription

sos famulos qui de diuersis seruiunt in fine ... ele sest bien mayntenee ... In cathedra sancti petri. 'Intelliget seruus meus et exaltabitur' Ysa. (Isaiah 52:13) Videmus in mundo . . in cathedra unde Petrum 'exaltent eum in in ecclesia plebis et in cathedra' (Ps. 106:32)

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura Rotunda
Place of production
N. Italy
Date of production
s. xiv
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Pastedown
Fragment type detail

stuck down, back

Element of folio

almost the whole page; cropped in outer margin

Ruling

simple ruling for frame in faint plummet

Decoration

Lombardic initial in blue with red penwork; capitula marks are red or blue; lemmata in French are underlined in red.

Further information
Notes

No Babel entry has been created as there is presently only one fragment known from this manuscript. The bifolia of Guy d'Evreux's sermons held by the University of Tasmania in Hobart are clearly not from the same copy.

Author: James Willoughby
Colchester Harsnett H.c.11 i
Dimensions
Fragment

317mm (h) x 198mm (w)

Number of lines
50
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
3mm
Space between lines
5mm
Upper margin
13mm
Height of written space
262mm
Width of written space
140mm
Lower margin
42mm
Inner margin
35mm
Width of text 1
70mm
Reservation 1
12mm
Width of text 2
70mm
Outer margin
11mm