Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 35
The two fragments presently identified may come from the same bifolium. They show that this was a low-grade bicolumnar medical manuscript which had received some attention from an early reader.
Textual information
Subject:
Medicine
Language:
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script:
Gothic
Script detail:
Fere-textura
Place of production:
England
Date of production:
s. xiii 2
Material information
Material:
Parchment
Ruling:
visible ruling for frame in plummet, a tramline at the left of the text block and again in the inner margin, all lines going to the edges
Dimensions
Page:
?270+mm (h) x 189mm (w)
Number of lines:
?48
Number of columns:
2
Height of minims:
2mm
Space between lines:
4mm
Height of written space:
Inner margin:
Width of text 1:
Reservation 1:
Width of text 2:
Outer margin:
History and further information
Information on dismantling:
Given the date of the publication for a copy which the two known fragments act as binding strips, the manuscript must have been available to dismantle at the very end of the sixteenth or start of the seventeenth century.
Number of folios represented:
?2 (?1 bifolium)
Date published:
Tuesday, August 16, 2016 - 16:38
Date last updated:
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 07:42
