Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 23

This manuscript is a commentary on Justinian's Codex, providing brief discussion of each of the tituli. Written in a current anglicana script with little attention to layout, this would seem to be intended for personal use, rather than institutional ownership as a reference work. Given its place of dismantling was Oxford, it may have been passed down from one legal lecturer to another over a period of a couple of centuries, before it was turned into pastedowns by the binder, George Chastelaine. The surviving fragments come from at least two separate quires.

Textual Information
Subject
Law
Civil Law
Title of work
Commentary on the Codex
Language
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Anglicana
Place of production
England
Date of production
s. xiii 2
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Decoration

Rubricated headings.

Ruling
intermittent, in plummet
Dimensions
Page

213++mm (h) x 197+mm (w)

Number of lines
58+
Height of minims
1mm
Space between lines
4mm
Height of written space
190+
Width of written space
157+
Upper margin

??

Lower margin

23+

Inner margin

20

Outer margin

20

History and further information
Information on dismantling

Like Babel MS. 25, this manuscript from the thirteenth century survived just into the sixteenth century, when it was in Oxford and was dismantled in the bindery of George Chastelaine, somewhere between 1502 (the date of printing of the last volume of Gerson's Opera) and his death in 1513. That he had access to the whole manuscript is suggested by the fact that the surviving fragments must come from at least two separate quires.

Number of folios represented
7 (3 bifolia + single leaf)
Bibliography

Ker, Pastedowns, no. 30.

Author: David Rundle_
Constituent Fragments
Colchester Harnsett H.b.25 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.b.25 i
Colchester Harsnett H.b.24 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.b.24 i
Colchester Harsnett H.b.23 ii
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.b.23 ii
Colchester Harsnett H.b.23 iColchester Harsnett H.b.23 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.b.23 i