Fragment

St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, AQ 1467

Host volume
St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, AQ 1467
Textual Information
Subject
Liturgy
Title of work

Psalms

Section

72:22-73:14 (front), 73:15-76:6

Orientation
not discernible
Transcription

(front left) mei | Quia zelavi ... Et in voluntate tua de|| (front right)  volui super terram ... confregisti||

(back left) tu siccasti ... Et inclinauit|| (back right) exinanita ... locutus [C]ogitaui||

Material information
Material
Parchment
Type of fragment
Wrapper
Element of folio

Near-complete folio (one line at top missing)

Decoration

Some short four-line staves (11mm high) on front. Also two-line blue initials on red flourishing. Passages open with a red initial the height of a tall letter

Further information
Notes

Damaged, with holes and with some letters on the front and nearly all on the back having lost their colour and so are white shadows

Bibliography

Textual identification made by William Duba

Author: David Rundle
Last Revised by David Rundle
St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, AQ 1467 front
St Peter Port: Guernsey Island Archives, AQ 1467 back
Dimensions
Fragment

280mm (h) x 180mm (w)

Number of lines
40
Number of columns
2
Height of minims
4mm
Space between lines
7mm
Height of written space
268mm
Lower margin
12mm
Width of text 1
73mm
Reservation 1
12mm
Width of text 2
77mm