Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 35

The two fragments presently identified may come from the same bifolium. They show that this was a low-grade bicolumnar medical manuscript which had received some attention from an early reader.

Textual Information
Subject
Medicine
Language
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Fere-textura
Place of production
England
Date of production
s. xiii 2
Material Information
Material
Parchment
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
Dimensions
Page

?270+mm (h) x 189mm (w)

Number of lines
?48
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
2mm
Space between lines
4mm
Height of written space
?192
Inner margin

25

Width of text 1

62

Reservation 1

11

Width of text 2

62

Outer margin

29

History and further information
Information on dismantling

Given the date of the publication for a copy which the two known fragments act as binding strips, the manuscript must have been available to dismantle at the very end of the sixteenth or start of the seventeenth century.

Number of folios represented
?2 (?1 bifolium)
Author: David Rundle_
Constituent Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.f.24 ii
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.24 ii
Colchester Harsnett H.f.24 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.24 i