Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 10

No surviving fragment is known from this manuscript - only offset. This is legible by enhancing the digital image and shows that this manuscript was an early witness to Peter Lombard's Sentences. Only the nearly full width of a fairly thin column is visible, suggesting that the volume was originally in bicolumnar format.

Textual Information
Subject
Theology
Author of work
Peter Lombard (d. 1160)
Title of work
Sententiarum libri
Language
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script
Protogothic
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Layout
Bicolumnar?
Dimensions
Page

mm (h) x mm (w)

Number of lines
21++
Number of columns
2?
Height of minims
1mm
Space between lines
4mm
Height of written space
98
Width of text 1

36+

History and further information
Information on dismantling

The manuscript was available to be used as binding material in John Reynes's workshop, in the late 1530s or first half of the 1540s. The volume was rebacked, probably in 1970 or 1971; at that point, new flyleaves were added to the volume and, presumably at the same time, the binding strip was removed, leaving only offset.

Number of folios represented
1
Author: David Rundle_
Constituent Fragments
Colchester Harsnett I.b.18(1) offset
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett I.b.18(1) i