Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 2
There are three fragments with text, plus a blank strip, known from this manuscript. They appear in two identical bindings and provide passages of the Psalms; the large, single-column layout may suggest that the manuscript originally was solely a Psalter and not a complete Bible.
Textual information
Subject:
Bible
Title of work:
Psalms
Language:
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script:
Gothic
Script detail:
Textura (written below top line)
Place of production:
England
Material information
Material:
Parchment
Layout:
Long lines
Decoration:
Four-line initial for the start of each psalm: a plain lombard in shell gold on a pied background of pink and blue, with thin white tendrils to the interior. Initials for the start of each new verse are lombards, larger than text-size, done alternately in blue and red.
Ruling:
faint plummet
Dimensions
Page:
235mm (h) x 157mm (w)
Number of lines:
21
Number of columns:
1
Height of minims:
4mm
Space between lines:
9mm
Height of written space:
Width of written space:
Upper margin:
Lower margin:
Inner margin:
Outer margin:
History and further information
Information on dismantling:
This manuscript was clearly being cut into strips for bindings made at the very end of the sixteenth or start of the seventeenth century.
Number of folios represented:
3?
Date published:
Monday, July 6, 2015 - 13:42
Date last updated:
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - 11:56
