Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 41

A single fragment is at present known from this manuscript but it does provide the full width of a folio with text of the Decretals and extensive commentary. It appears to have been imported into England soon after production and to have survived into the early seventeenth century.

Textual Information
Subject
Law
Canon Law
Author of work
Gregory IX, pope 1227-41
Title of work
Decretals (with commentary)
Language
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
textura rotunda
Place of production
Italy
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Layout
Bicolumnar with gloss
Ruling
lightly in plummet
Dimensions
Page

278?+mm (h) x 185mm (w)

Number of lines
23?
Height of minims
3mm
Space between lines
5mm
Height of written space
105?
Upper margin

35

Lower margin

10 + 105 [gloss] + 23

Inner margin

20

Width of text 1

20 [gloss]

Reservation 1

10

Width of text 2

70

Reservation 2

10

Width of text 3

45 [gloss]

Outer margin

20

Space between lines (gloss)
3mm
Height of minims (gloss)
2mm
History and further information
Provenance

There are annotations, both textual and figurative (faces drawn next to the main body of the Decretals); these show anglicana features (s. xiii/xiv), demonstrating that this manuscript was used in England in the Middle Ages.

Information on dismantling

Used as a wrapper, presumably in England, for a pamphlet printed in Venice in 1611, the manuscript from which it came would appear to have survived into the seventeenth century before being dismantled.

Number of folios represented
2
Author: David Rundle_
Constituent Fragments
Oxford ChCh ZP.5.17 front outside
Oxford: Christ Church, ZP.5.17 i
Oxford ChCh ZP.5.17 front inside
Oxford: Christ Church, ZP.5.17 i
Oxford ChCh ZP.5.17 back outside
Oxford: Christ Church, ZP.5.17 i
Oxford ChCh ZP.5.17 back inside
Oxford: Christ Church, ZP.5.17 i