Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 21

Only one fragment survives, providing sections from the Psalms. It may be that the original manuscript was a small, portable Bible: the overall measurements, extrapolated from this fragment, and the thinness of the parchment are compatible with this possibility.

Textual Information
Subject
Bible
Language
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura
Place of production
France
Material Information
Material
Parchment
Layout
Bicolumnar
Decoration

Filigree alternate blue and red initials for each verse, with pen-flourishing to fill lines.

Ruling
Fully ruled with lines crossing the tramlines but not into the margins, and with double vertical borders and an extra vertical line in inner margin, 20mm from text
Dimensions
Page

198++mm (h) x 178mm (w)

Number of lines
48?
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
2mm
Space between lines
4mm
Height of written space
198?
Width of written space
131
Upper margin

absent

Lower margin

absent

Inner margin

25

Width of text 1

60

Reservation 1

10

Width of text 2

61

Outer margin

25

History and further information
Number of folios represented
1
Author: David Rundle_
Constituent Fragments
Colchester Harsnett H.d.22 fragment
Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett H.d.2(2) i