Type

Fragment

St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, SG 21-025 (b)

Lost manuscript
Textual Information
Subject
Bible
Title of work

Leviticus

Section

13:59-14:10 (front inside left), 14:12-17 (back inside left), 14:21-28 (front inside right), 14:31-39 (back inside left), 17:6-14 (front inside left), 17:15-18:9 (back inside left), 18:9-19 (front inside right), 18:21-28 (back inside right)

Orientation
top to fore-edge
Transcription

(front inside left) lange et de totes ... deforment en sacre (back inside left) li prestres qui ... lors mendra ils (front inside right) son sacrefice et le metra su|| netoiez mes ... por li et la||, ir tot a soi ... pierres en quoi|| (back inside left)

(front inside left)sacrifit a dam le dieu ... filz israel uos ne (back inside left) ||et qui le menga ... tu ne descoueru (front inside right) pas pas[deleted by subpunct] la ledece ... pas sordure|| (back inside right) desemence ... uomi les|| 

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura rotunda
Place of production
France
Date of production
s. xiii/xiv
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Wrapper
Fragment type detail

Double wrapper

Element of folio

Two near-complete folios, stitched together so only one recto and one verso visible

Decoration

Chapter numbers and running headers in alternate blue and red. Two-line red letters on blue filigree open each chapter. 

Further information
Notes

Though the verso of the first folio and recto of the second are not visible, they appear to provide the central bifolium of a quire

Author: David Rundle
Last Revised by David Rundle
Dimensions
Fragment

200mm (h) x 300mm (w)

Number of lines
40
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
3mm
Space between lines
6mm
Upper margin
21mm
Height of written space
236mm
Lower margin
48mm
Inner margin
5mm
Width of text 1
85mm
Reservation 1
15mm
Width of text 2
80mm
Outer margin
20mm