Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 7

Two consecutive leaves from this small, portable manuFurther informationscript are known.

Textual Information
Subject
Patristics
Author of work
Augustine (354-430)
Title of work
De immortalitate animae
Language
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
tiny, with some extravagant descenders and diagonal ascenders, and tall final s
Date of production
s. xiii 1
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Layout
Bicolumnar
Ruling
Fully ruled in plummet with horizontal lines crossing the central reservation
Dimensions
Page

193mm (h) x 105mm (w)

Number of lines
41
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
1mm
Space between lines
4mm
Height of written space
163
Lower margin

40

Inner margin

6

Width of text 1

45

Reservation 1

8

Width of text 2

45

History and further information
Information on dismantling

The evidence of the binding suggests that this was dismantled in Oxford in the early 1550s. There are, however, no other fragments of this work recorded by Ker, Pastedowns or Pearson, Oxford.

Number of folios represented
2
Author: David Rundle_
Constituent Fragments
Colchester Harsnett K.a.9 back pastedown
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.9 ii
Colchester Harsnett K.a.9 front pastedown
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.9 i