Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 40
Only the thinnest of fragments survive, with no complete words, making identification of the text impossible. However, as the two fragments show the same script and appear in twin bindings of the two volumes of a printed edition, identification of the two as coming from the same source is secure. If these fragments share a provenance with the strip from an indenture which is now Colchester: University of Essex, Harsnett H.c.8 ii, then the origins of that from an abbey would suggest that this formed part of a monastic record or perhaps a cartulary.
Textual information
Subject:
Documentary
Title of work:
accounts
Language:
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script:
Gothic
Script detail:
Anglicana
Place of production:
England
Date of production:
s. xiv
Material information
Material:
Parchment
Dimensions
Page:
mm (h) x mm (w)
History and further information
Number of folios represented:
1?
Notes:
The fragments are too exiguous to allow the reconstruction of the page.
Date published:
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 11:43
Date last updated:
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 07:42
