Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 7

Two consecutive leaves from this small, portable manuFurther informationscript are known.

Textual information

Subject: 
Patristics
Author of work: 
Augustine (354-430)
Title of work: 
De immortalitate animae
Language: 
Latin

Palaeography

Type of script: 
Gothic
Script detail: 
tiny, with some extravagant descenders and diagonal ascenders, and tall final s
Date of production: 
s. xiii 1

Material information

Material: 
Parchment
Layout: 
Bicolumnar
Ruling: 
Fully ruled in plummet with horizontal lines crossing the central reservation

Dimensions

Page: 

193mm (h) x 105mm (w)

Number of lines: 
41
Number of columns: 
2
Height of minims: 
1mm
Space between lines: 
4mm
Height of written space: 
163mm
Lower margin: 
40mm
Inner margin: 
6mm
Width of text 1: 
45mm
Reservation 1: 
8mm
Width of text 2: 
45mm

History and further information

Information on dismantling: 

The evidence of the binding suggests that this was dismantled in Oxford in the early 1550s. There are, however, no other fragments of this work recorded by Ker, Pastedowns or Pearson, Oxford.

Number of folios represented: 
2
Date last updated: 
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 09:02