Type

Fragment

Canterbury: Cathedral, W/E-6-6 i

Textual Information
Subject
Liturgy
Title of work

Lectionary

Section

Exodus 1:19, 1:20-2:4, 2:5-10, 2:11-14, 2:15-17

Orientation
upright
Transcription

'[col. a] ¦¦erunt. Non sunt hebree ... eas pariunt. leccio ij. Bene ergo fecit ... euentum rei. leccio iij. Ecce autem descendebat ... puella et uo [col. b] cauit matrem eius ...  de aqua tuli eum. Feria iij. lecio prima. In diebus illis postquam ... uerbum istud. lecio ij. AUdiuitque pharao ... et eiecerunt eas. leccio tercia'

Palaeography
Type of script
Gothic
Script detail
Textura quadrata
Place of production
England
Date of production
s. xv in
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Pastedown
Element of folio

Near-full folio, cropped at left to lose margin and first letter

Ruling

Fully ruled in lead, top two and bottom two horizontals crossing reservation, all others confined by the bounding lines

Decoration

Col. b has a 7-line high initial, placed in the margin: 'I' in gold, on a pied pink-blue background, sprouting fronts the upper ending in a hairy fir-cone. Each reading opens with a two-line initial, blue on red pen-flourished background.

Further information
Notes

A Cathedral bookplate formerly covered part of the initial on col. b; removed in 2019. 

Author: David Rundle
Last Revised by David Rundle
Dimensions
Fragment

330mm (h) x 196mm (w)

Number of lines
39
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
5mm
Space between lines
7mm
Upper margin
15mm
Height of written space
296mm
Width of written space
196mm
Lower margin
19mm
Width of text 1
86mm
Reservation 1
20mm
Width of text 2
90mm