Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 16

Not enough is presently known from this manuscript to reconstruct precisely the text but it is a philosophical commentary, with a discussion of causation. The manuscript was a small working copy, probably from a university context, which, given the binding, we can localise to Oxford.

Textual Information
Subject
Philosophy
Language
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
cursive
Place of production
England
Date of production
s. xiv 1
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Layout
Long lines
Ruling
visible ruling for frame in plummet or violet crayon. Faint pencil ruling for the writing lines.
Dimensions
Page

?225mm (h) x 150mm (w)

Number of lines
+/-55
Number of columns
1
Height of minims
1mm
Space between lines
3mm
Height of written space
?165
Width of written space
110
Inner margin

15

Outer margin

30

History and further information
Information on dismantling

The fragments so far identifed suggest that this was in a binders' shop in Oxford being used at the start of the 1560s.

Number of folios represented
?2
Author: David Rundle_
Constituent Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.f.8 ii
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.8 ii
Colchester Harsnett H.f.8 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.8 i