Type

Fragment

St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, AQ 0372/01 (b)

Lost manuscript
Textual Information
Subject
Verse
Author of work
Pierre de Peckham
Title of work

La lumere as lais

Section

ll. 3546–852

Orientation
inverted
Transcription

(outside left) ||uz le plus communement ... Sil voleient il grant honur (outside right) Simple [...]trement mur ... Ausi le funt li clerc ci une lai

(inside left) ||arice la fameillus desir ... De nul home pur nul auer (inside right) Kaueront dassez meindre peine ... Com vus al vostres fetes ore||

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
cursive
Date of production
s. xiv in
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Wrapper
Element of folio

Whole bifolium, with one edge cropped

Decoration

Red shading on initials in offset column, and one section title on outside rubricated

Further information
Notes

Two sets of inscriptions inverted to text in what was originally the lower margin of the outside:

s. xv/xvi (left) premier des mart[.]rs s. (right) hellyer des landes

s. xvi1 (left) Enssuydent les pesuage d[...] (right) Le Lybure et tegn[...] [next line, different script:] de la court du fieu du Com[..]

For discussion, see Lost Manuscript GF03

Bibliography

Identification of text by Tamara Atkin. Text edited by G. Hesketh, Anglo-Norman Text Society, 3 vols in 2 (London, 1996-1999)

Author: David Rundle
Last Revised by David Rundle
Dimensions
Fragment

208mm (h) x 287mm (w)

Number of lines
38
Number of columns
2
Height of written space
177mm
Lower margin
31mm
Width of text 1
52mm
Reservation 1
7mm
Width of text 2
62mm