Type

Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 22

No text from this manuscript and only the thinnest of strips survive but we can surmise something of its nature: we have the full width of the page which demonstrates this was a substantial book. The layout, bicolumnar with an extra column to the left reserved, it seems, for the initial, suggests that it was a liturgical volume. It would appear that the text and illumination were discarded, with the binder interested in using only those elements with the least signs of intervention.

Textual Information
Subject
Unidentified
Palaeography
Type of script
none
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Dimensions
Page

450+?mm (h) x 298mm (w)

Number of columns
1 + 2
Inner margin

42

Width of text 1

78

Width of text 2

74

Reservation 2

20

Width of text 3

75

Outer margin

9

History and further information
Information on dismantling

The thin strips used to strengthen outermost gatherings of the large volume in an undatable limp binding.

Number of folios represented
1?
Author: David Rundle_