Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 3

Presently, two small fragments of this manuscript are known. It appears that together they form the lower left corner of a folio, and suggest that the manuscript was formed of thin columns of Biblical text, with both marginal and interlinear glossing. The glosses appear to be the glossa ordinaria augmented with fuller quotations from Augustine and Bede.

Textual Information
Subject
Bible
Title of work
Exodus, with gloss
Language
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script
Protogothic
Place of production
England
Date of production
s. xii ex
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Layout
Text and gloss
Ruling
In plummet
Dimensions
Page

116+mmmm (h) x 98+mmmm (w)

Number of columns
2? of text, plus glossing columns
Height of minims
3mm
Space between lines
9mm
Height of written space
62+
Width of written space
83+
Lower margin

54

Width of text 1

c. 25

Reservation 1

6

Width of text 2

c. 25

Reservation 2

6

Width of text 3

54

Outer margin

11

History and further information
Number of folios represented
1?
Author: David Rundle_
Constituent Fragments
Colchester Harsnett K.a.1 back verso
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.1 ii
Colchester Harsnett K.a.1 front recto
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.1 i