Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 37

Only two small fragments are presently known from this manuscript but they are sufficient to suggest that this was once an elegant devotional volume, small in size and so probably intended for private use.

Textual Information
Subject
Liturgy
Language
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura quadrata
Place of production
England
Date of production
s. xiv 2
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Layout
Long lines
Decoration

Initials are two-line lombards in red with blue/black penwork flourishing, restrained but of good quality. Rubrication.

Ruling
faint ruling in plummet
Dimensions
Page

177+mm (h) x 118+mm (w)

Number of lines
?23
Number of columns
1
Height of minims
2mm
Space between lines
4mm
Height of written space
?92
Width of written space
63
Upper margin

20+

Inner margin

17

Outer margin

38

History and further information
Information on dismantling

These fragments were available for re-use in a binder's shop after 1580, and probably at the turn of the sixteenth to the seventeenth century.

Number of folios represented
4
Author: David Rundle_
Constituent Fragments

There are no fragments associated with this item