Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 5

Only one tall, thin strip is presently known from this manuscript but that fragment is enough to suggest that this layout of this elegant Bible volume. The text missing between the two sides of the fragment is the length of 54 verses from the Pauline Epistles; the implication is that this was a bicolumnar manuscript, from which we have a cutting from the bottom left corner of a leaf.

Textual Information
Subject
Bible
Language
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script
Protogothic
Place of production
England
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Decoration

Three-line lombards, unadorned, in red for the opening of the chapters.

Ruling
faint plummet
Dimensions
Page

mm (h) x mm (w)

Number of lines
17++
Number of columns
2?
Height of minims
3mm
Space between lines
9mm
Lower margin

30

Width of text 1

?75

Reservation 1

??

Width of text 2

?75

History and further information
Information on dismantling

Dismantled, presumably at the binders, in the last quarter of the sixteenth century or the very first years of the seventeenth.

Number of folios represented
1
Author: David Rundle_
Constituent Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.d.14 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.d.14 i