Type

Fragment

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.24 ii

Lost manuscript
Textual Information
Subject
Medicine
Section

on urine (right-hand page)

Orientation
foot to fore-edge
Transcription

(recto is stuck down)

(verso, left-hand page, col. a) ¦¦gnare illorum in re ¦¦ ... ¦¦ssimius intelleg(?)¦¦

(verso, left-hand page, col. b) media pori ... sicut dicitur liber de uirtutibus naturalibus li. primo ca. vi ... dolor cum ipsi sint inusi¦¦ 

(verso, right-hand page, col. a) urina testis autem alba possit ... si ante ea fuit rabi¦¦

(verso, right-hand page, col. b) rem macoroni hanc s. si¦¦ ... ¦¦ nec est natum sicut dicit¦¦

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura
Place of production
England
Date of production
s. xiii
s. xiii 2
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Binding strip
Fragment type detail

stuck down, back

Element of folio

strip cut across the top of the written space of a bifolium

Ruling

visible ruling for frame in plummet, a tramline at the left of the text block and again in the inner margin, all lines going to the edges.

Decoration

None.

Further information
Notes

The fragment is cut across an opening of the original manuscript. The horizontal measurements are:

left-hand page, col. a = 30; reservation = 10; col. b = 62; margin = 55 (30 to centrefold + 25); col. a = 62; reservation = 12; col. b = 37

Author: James Willoughby
Dimensions
Fragment

268mm (h) x 34mm (w)

Number of lines
6
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
2mm
Space between lines
4mm
Upper margin
7mm
Height of written space
27mm
Width of written space
84mm
Lower margin
0mm
Inner margin
25mm
Width of text 1
62mm
Reservation 1
11mm
Width of text 2
62mm
Outer margin
29mm