Fragment

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.b.22 i

Lost manuscript
Babel MS 25
Host volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.b.22
Textual Information
Subject
Medicine
Author of work
Isaac Israeli (trans. Constantinus Africanus)
Title of work

Liber urinarum

Section

ed. [Lyon: B. Trot,] 1515, fol. cxciii verso and cxcvii recto

Orientation
foot to fore-edge
Transcription

(left-hand page)¦¦significat complexione corporis vel ... [rubric:] De ypostesi accidentali [text:] [Y]postesis accidentalis diversificatur ... ex loco igitur ypostesis ¦¦

(right-hand page) ¦¦ intelligatur pororum[sic: pilorum] et paucitate eorum vel quia .... nec minuta corpus¦¦

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura currens
Place of production
England
Date of production
s. xiii
s. xiii 1
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Pastedown
Fragment type detail

pastedown, front, in situ

Element of folio

bifolium, lacking only top margin

Ruling

ruled in plummet for text and gloss, with two sets of out double binding lines

Decoration

Rubricated section heading.

Further information
Bibliography

POxBo, 29.

Author: James Willoughby
Colchester Harsnett H.b.22 iColchester Harsnett H.b.22 i
Dimensions
Fragment

313mm (h) x 197mm (w)

Number of lines
28
Number of columns
1 + 2 cols of gloss (texts 1 and 3) to each folio
Height of minims
2mm
Space between lines
5mm
Height of written space
135mm
Width of written space
75mm
Lower margin
62mm
Inner margin
37mm
Width of text 1
20mm
Reservation 1
3mm
Reservation 2
3mm
Width of text 3
23mm
Outer margin
10mm
Height of minims (gloss)
1mm