Fragment

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.13 ii

Lost manuscript
Babel MS 15
Host volume
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.13
Textual Information
Subject
Law
English Law
Author of work
Ranulf de Glanvill (d. 1190) (attrib.)
Title of work

Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regum Angliae

Section

Lib. I, cc. 31-32 [ed. G. D. G. Hall (Oxford, 1965), pp. 19-20 and 21]

Orientation
foot to gutter
Transcription

(verso) vicibus eo semper absente ... ad diem primum non venerit (last line illegible)

(recto) expensas et primum ... incipiet alii es. fil. dicunt ... quosdam et totum custum amit¦¦

Palaeography
Type of script
Protogothic
Place of production
England
Date of production
s. xii
s. xii ex
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Pastedown
Fragment type detail

raised, at back

Element of folio

middle section

Ruling

Lightly ruled in plummet with double bounding lines

Further information
Notes

The edge of the margin of the recto has two early (s. xiii in?) annotations - each identifying characters alluded to in the text. In the first case, 'alii es. fil. dicunt' is noted to refer to 'Osbertus filius herevei' (that is, Osbert fitz Hervey). In the second, the text has only 'alii' (corrected from 'aliis') to which the annotator adds 'h.w.'. These marginalia are noticed and discussed by G. D. G. Hall in his edition (pp. xliii-xlvii; note that he misconstrues the second). See further the headnote to the Babel manuscript.

Bibliography

Pearson, Oxford, 830.9.

Author: David Rundle_
Colchester Harsnett K.a.13 back flyleaf verso
Dimensions
Fragment

148mm (h) x 97mm (w)

Number of lines
14
Number of columns
1
Height of minims
3mm
Space between lines
7mm
Height of written space
97mm
Width of written space
106mm
Inner margin
41mm