Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 24

Two fragments survive in one binding. Each provides an upper part of a folio, and we may assume that they once formed a single piece, which was once wrapped around the printed pamphlet to which they are now flyleaves (the rubbing on the outer side of each fragment is consonant with this hypothesis). On this basis, we can extrapolate the probable over-all size of the folio, from what would have been a substantial manuscript.

Textual Information
Subject
Medicine
Language
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura Rotunda
Place of production
S. France or N. Italy
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Layout
Bicolumnar
Decoration

Tituli are rubricated. Initials are two-line lombards in blue with red penwork flourishing.

Ruling
none visible
Dimensions
Page

375??mm (h) x 250?mm (w)

Number of lines
36?? (31 visible)
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
3mm
Space between lines
6mm
Height of written space
216??
Width of written space
150?
Upper margin

19+

Inner margin

50

Width of text 1

70?

Reservation 1

5?

Width of text 2

75

Outer margin

45

History and further information
Information on dismantling

The manuscript appears to have been available for dismantling in England at the start of the early seventeenth century, the date of the pamphlet to which it is now a set of flyleaves. The rubbing on the outer sides of the leaves suggests it was originally used as a wrapper. Early in life, the pamphlet and its wrapper seem to have been damaged by water, after which the present limp vellum binding was added.

Number of folios represented
1?
Author: David Rundle_
Constituent Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.a.54 ii rectoColchester Harsnett H.a.54 ii recto
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.a.54 ii
Colchester Harsnett H.a.54 i recto
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.a.54 i