Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 34

Two consecutive leaves are presently known from this fine manuscript, in which the gothic bookhand is presented in double columns with wider borders. There are some signs of early readership on the second fragment but nothing more which would help to reconstruct the manuscript's history.

Textual Information
Subject
Philosophy
Author of work
Aristotle
Title of work
Metaphysica, tr. William of Moerbeke
Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura semi-quadrata
Place of production
England
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Layout
Bicolumnar
Decoration

Paraphs alternating in red and blue.

Ruling
visible ruling for frame in plummet, a tramline at each side of the text block and again in the upper and lower margins, all lines going to the edges. Written below top line.
Dimensions
Page

333mm (h) x 215mm (w)

Number of lines
30
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
4mm
Space between lines
7mm
Height of written space
203
Upper margin

26

Lower margin

104

Inner margin

39

Width of text 1

54

Reservation 1

11

Width of text 2

56

Reservation 2

55

History and further information
Information on dismantling

The manuscript was clearly available for use in a binder's shop in the second half of the sixteenth century.

Number of folios represented
2
Author: David Rundle_
Constituent Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.g.32 ii
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.g.32 ii
Colchester Harsnett H.g.32 i
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.g.32 i