Type

Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 20

Two small strips are presently known from this volume but they are enough to tell us that this would have been an attractive and small illuminated devotional book.

Textual Information
Subject
Liturgy
Title of work
Hours of the Virgin
Language
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura
Place of production
England
Date of production
s. xiv in
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Layout
Long lines
Decoration

Each fragments has remains of an illuminated initial in blue and gold, as well as red and blue decorative line-filler; on fragment i, there is also two-line lombard, cropped, with red penwork.

Ruling
pale violet crayon
Dimensions
Page

?210mm (h) x 145mm (w)

Height of minims
3mm
Space between lines
6mm
Height of written space
?130+
Width of written space
90
Inner margin

15

Outer margin

40

History and further information
Information on dismantling

The date of its use in a binding -- between 1607 and 1631 -- suggests a notably late date for its being available for cutting up and re-use.

Number of folios represented
?2
Author: David Rundle_