Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 30
There are two identified fragments from two leaves, representing what would have been a large glossed legal volume, presumably of the complete Digest.
Textual information
Subject:
Law
Civil Law
Title of work:
Digestum (Infortiatum), with gloss (unidentified, Accursius?)
Language:
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script:
Gothic
Script detail:
Textura
Place of production:
Italy
Date of production:
s. xiii 2
Material information
Material:
Parchment
Layout:
Bicolumnar with gloss
Decoration:
Large initials are two- or three-line lombards in red or blue, with restrained flourishing in the other colour. Paraphs are blue.
Ruling:
Simple ruling for frame in plummet, including frame for gloss, each line going to the edge. Fainter ruling for the writing lines.
Dimensions
Page:
?387+mm (h) x ?258+mm (w)
Number of columns:
2
Height of minims:
2mm
Space between lines:
6mm
Upper margin:
Lower margin:
Inner margin:
Width of text 1:
Reservation 1:
Width of text 2:
Outer margin:
Space between lines (gloss):
5mm
Height of minims (gloss):
1mm
History and further information
Information on dismantling:
The fact that these fragments were re-used in a Cambridge binding datable to the period 1515-30 implies that this manuscript was discarded by its former home before any Reformation purges of libraries.
Number of folios represented:
2
Date published:
Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - 16:08
Date last updated:
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 07:58
