Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 2

There are three fragments with text, plus a blank strip, known from this manuscript. They appear in two identical bindings and provide passages of the Psalms; the large, single-column layout may suggest that the manuscript originally was solely a Psalter and not a complete Bible.

Textual Information
Subject
Bible
Title of work
Psalms
Language
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura (written below top line)
Place of production
England
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Layout
Long lines
Decoration

Four-line initial for the start of each psalm: a plain lombard in shell gold on a pied background of pink and blue, with thin white tendrils to the interior. Initials for the start of each new verse are lombards, larger than text-size, done alternately in blue and red.

Ruling
faint plummet
Dimensions
Page

235mm (h) x 157mm (w)

Number of lines
21
Number of columns
1
Height of minims
4mm
Space between lines
9mm
Height of written space
160
Width of written space
104
Upper margin

22

Lower margin

53

Inner margin

23

Outer margin

30

History and further information
Information on dismantling

This manuscript was clearly being cut into strips for bindings made at the very end of the sixteenth or start of the seventeenth century.

Number of folios represented
3?
Author: David Rundle_
Constituent Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.f.29 strips
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.29 ii
Colchester Harsnett H.f.29 strips
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.29 i
Colchester Harsnett H.f.15 front strip
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.f.15 i