Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 4
Three fragments survive of this manuscript, giving a fair sense of what the layout of the volume. The script is slightly uneven and the measurements are not fully constant, suggesting that this manuscript -- presumably a complete Bible -- was not of the highest grade. The notably wide outer margins suggest it was created with an expectation of a gloss being provided which was never inserted.
One of the strips - Harsnett H.d.53 ii - is cut across an opening. The second section of text on its recto immediately precedes the text provided by Harsnett H.d.52 i.
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Dimensions
??321mm (h) x ?214mm (w)
History and further information
The fragments appear in two identical bindings: the manuscript was presumably dismembered in the binder's shop, perhaps in Cambridge, at some point after in the middle of the sixteenth century.