Fragment

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.9 ii

Lost manuscript
Babel MS 7
Host volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.9
Textual Information
Subject
Patristics
Author of work
Augustine (354-430)
Title of work

De immortalitate animae

Section

cc. vi-vii ed. Hörmann {CSEL, lxxxix} (Vienna, 1986), pp. 111 (l. 5) - 113 (l. 18)]

Orientation
inverted
Transcription

¦¦rum autem ... ergo patitur cum mi¦¦

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
tiny, with some extravagant descenders and diagonal ascenders, and tall final s
Date of production
s. xiii
s. xiii 1
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Pastedown
Fragment type detail

at back

Element of folio

nearly complete folio

Ruling

Fully ruled in plummet with horizontal lines crossing the central reservation

Further information
Notes

The chapter division is not marked in any way.

Author: David Rundle_
Colchester Harsnett K.a.9 back pastedown
Dimensions
Fragment

172mm (h) x 104mm (w)

Number of lines
33
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
1mm
Space between lines
4mm
Height of written space
132mm
Lower margin
40mm
Inner margin
10mm
Width of text 1
45mm
Reservation 1
8mm
Width of text 2
41mm