Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 30

There are two identified fragments from two leaves, representing what would have been a large glossed legal volume, presumably of the complete Digest.

Textual Information
Subject
Law
Civil Law
Author of work
Justinian
Title of work
Digestum (Infortiatum), with gloss (unidentified, Accursius?)
Language
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura
Place of production
Italy
Date of production
s. xiii 2
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Layout
Bicolumnar with gloss
Decoration

Large initials are two- or three-line lombards in red or blue, with restrained flourishing in the other colour. Paraphs are blue.

Ruling
Simple ruling for frame in plummet, including frame for gloss, each line going to the edge. Fainter ruling for the writing lines.
Dimensions
Page

?387+mm (h) x ?258+mm (w)

Number of columns
2
Height of minims
2mm
Space between lines
6mm
Upper margin

55+

Lower margin

28+

Inner margin

?70+

Width of text 1

54

Reservation 1

11

Width of text 2

53

Outer margin

?70+

Space between lines (gloss)
5mm
Height of minims (gloss)
1mm
History and further information
Information on dismantling

The fact that these fragments were re-used in a Cambridge binding datable to the period 1515-30 implies that this manuscript was discarded by its former home before any Reformation purges of libraries.

Number of folios represented
2
Author: David Rundle_
Constituent Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.e.49 ii verso
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.e.49 ii
Colchester Harsnett H.e.49 i recto
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.e.49 i