Fragment

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.1 ii

Host volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.1
Textual Information
Subject
Patristics
Author of work
Paschasius Radbert (c.785-c.860)
Title of work

Epistola de assumptione beatae Mariae virginis ('Cogitis me...')

Section

18 [ed. A. Ripberger 1985, p. 66]

Orientation
inverted
Transcription

(recto, originally verso) ¦¦ociantur ¦¦ Hinc quo ¦¦ quic est ¦¦ de euangelizare ¦¦dat eloqui ¦¦cipio erat ¦¦ deum et deu¦¦ ata es uite ¦¦ Hoc quippe ¦¦ principio ¦¦ et deus erat  ¦¦ genuit . . . dicitur ¦¦ [ - - - ]¦¦ino tue ¦¦ imitatur.

(verso, originally recto) no leading word visible as remnants of pasteboard are stuck to the parchment.

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura
Place of production
England
Date of production
s. xiv
s. xiv 1
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Binding strip
Fragment type detail

lifted, back

Element of folio

strip cut down the page

Ruling

ruling in red ink

Decoration

Large initials are three-line lombards, in blue ink, flourished in red. Rubricated capitula.

Further information
Notes

No photograph possible because of fragment's present position and state.

Author: James Willoughby
Dimensions
Fragment

270mm (h) x 45mm (w)

Number of lines
39
Number of columns
1
Height of minims
4mm
Space between lines
6mm
Height of written space
248mm
Width of written space
35mm
Lower margin
22mm
Inner margin
10mm