Fragment

St Peter Port: Greffe, Langlois A.2 Livre de Perchage (1576) for Fief des Coltons (1)

Lost manuscript
GF 09
Host volume
St Peter Port: Greffe, Langlois A.2 Livre de Perchage (1576) for Fief des Coltons
Textual Information
Subject
Classics
Author of work
Ovidius
Guillaume d’Orléans
Title of work

Heroides, with commentary

Section

1:1-57 (front); 4:49-118 (back)

Transcription

(front outside) Hanc [sic] tua ... fumant [comm: Ouidius In pelygaio oppido...] (front inside) ponitur ad ... morandi est|| (back inside) Aut quas semidee ... cornea ferro (back outside) Denique ... [heavily rubbed] uigore parens||

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura rotunda
Place of production
France
Date of production
s. xiii 1
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Wrapper
Element of folio

Whole bifolium

Decoration

The opening of Heroides 1 has a four-line flourished initial in red with blue

Further information
Bibliography

T. Atkin and J. R. Mattison, 'Remnants of Guernsey’s Medieval Manuscript Culture: A New Witness to L’estoire de Griseldis' (in preparation)

Author: David Rundle
Last Revised by David Rundle
St Peter Port: Greffe, Langlois A.2 Livre de Perchage (1576) for Fief des Coltons (1) front outside
St Peter Port: Greffe, Langlois A.2 Livre de Perchage (1576) for Fief des Coltons (1) front inside
St Peter Port: Greffe, Langlois A.2 Livre de Perchage (1576) for Fief des Coltons (1) back inside
St Peter Port: Greffe, Langlois A.2 Livre de Perchage (1576) for Fief des Coltons (1) back outside
Dimensions
Fragment

200mm (h) x 154mm (w)

Number of lines
32
Upper margin
16mm
Height of written space
180mm
Width of written space
67mm
Lower margin
4mm