Type

Lost Manuscript

GF 06

One bifolium, with its inner leaves stitched down and so not viewable, survives from this Old Testament in the French 'version de s. xiii'. Claudio Lagomarsini has studied the text of the fragment and places it in the so-called 'primitive' or 'common' version of that translation (of which there are three versions).

Textual Information
Subject
Bible
Title of work
Old Testament (opening books)
Language
French
Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura rotunda
Date of production
s. xiii/xiv
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Layout
Bicolumnar
Decoration

Running headers and chapter numbers in red and blue, likewise initials at start of chapters, two-line red on blue flourishing

Dimensions
Page

359mm (h) x 240mm (w)

Number of lines
40+
Height of minims
3mm
Space between lines
6mm
Height of written space
236
Upper margin

21

Lower margin

102

Width of text 1

85

Reservation 1

15

Width of text 2

85

History and further information
Information on dismantling

These folios were available to be dismantled and reused and the start of the seventeenth century on Guernsey. 

Number of folios represented
2 (one bifolium)
Notes

Prof. Lagomarsini comments that the affinity of this fragment to the 'common' version is (to quote) 'particularly clear in Lv 14:4, where the Latin passeres is rendered in all manuscripts, including the fragment, by the French passes (‘sparrows’), whereas the two manuscripts witnessing the textual revision that I call yR (i.e., Paris, Arsenal MS 5056 and Chantilly, Musée Condé, MS 4) have replaced it with mauvis (< maviscus, i.e. ‘mavis, song-thrush, or fieldfare’).'

Prof. Lagomarsini notes further:

The fragment is likely to derive from a source closely related to that of MS E (Évora, Bibl. Pública e Arquivo, MS cxxiv/1-1). In Lv 14:9, where all the manuscripts have the correct translation pilos>peuls, ‘hairs’ (with minor orthographic variants such as peuxpeuspueus etc.), the fragment reads peignis, a variant of the form penis found in MS E (cf. DEAF, s.v. penil, ‘pubic hair’…). This textual affinity is further confirmed by a saut du même au même shared by the fragment and MS E in Lv 18:3:

(Fragm.:) “Vos ne ferez pas selonc la coustume de la terre Chanaan”;

(MS E:) “Vos ne feroiz pas selonc la coustume de la terre Chanaam”;

(Other MSS = Vulgate:) “Vos ne feroiz pas selonc la costume de la terre d’Egypte ou vos habitastes, ne ne feroiz pas selonc la costume de la terre Chanaan”.

Author: David Rundle
Last Revised by David Rundle