Type

Fragment

St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, AQ 0511/08

Lost manuscript
Textual Information
Subject
Epistolae
Author of work
Ivo Carnotensis
Alcuinus
Benedictus de Nursia
Title of work

Epistolae; Interpretatio nominum Hebraeorum

Section

(outside right) PL clxii, ep. 161, 134, 148 (inside left) ep. 148, 162, 123 (inside right and outside left) PL c, col. 726-733 (outside left, col. b) PL lxvi, col. 261-931 (notes from)

Orientation
upright
Transcription

(inside, left, col. a) ||tali uxorem ducit ... nullum esse flagit|| [V] ale ... [c]arnotensis ecclesie mi|| ... presbitero qui in statua ... (col. b)dotalibus indumentis ... genera curationum. Vale. ... Requisitus ex ... in concilio telo||

(inside, right, col. a) In [Salomone] pacificus sicut ipse ait Pacem ... solum In [Mathan] (col. b) donum ... in joatham ... iuxta 

(outside, left, col. a) [Estote perfecti] ... [top half very rubbbed] ... cristo Amen (col. b) ...orandi assiduitas ... [rubbed to illegibility] ...cordis apostolice ... possidetur.

(outside, right, col. a) enim in scriptura sacra ... modum [plurima] Vale ...||tis ecclesie minister ... hoc de (col. b) [proposita...] |seriam ... [rubbed] ... sed uoluntas|| ||stitutionum||

Palaeography
Type of script
Protogothic
Date of production
s. xii/xiii
Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Wrapper
Element of folio

Whole bifolium

Ruling

not visible

Decoration

Ivo's letters open with simple red initials; no decoration for Alcuin

Further information
Author: David Rundle
Last Revised by David Rundle
Dimensions
Fragment

172mm (h) x 243mm (w)

Number of lines
50
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
1mm
Space between lines
4mm
Upper margin
6mm
Height of written space
145mm
Lower margin
21mm
Inner margin
19mm
Width of text 1
55mm
Reservation 1
2mm
Width of text 2
55mm
Outer margin
5mm