Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 14
A copy of the Decretals with wide margins left for glossing but with only limited marginalia (s. xiii), including a manicula, added.
Textual information
Subject:
Law
Canon Law
Title of work:
Decretales
Language:
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script:
Gothic
Script detail:
Cursive, with tall final s
Place of production:
England
Date of production:
s. xiii 1
Material information
Material:
Parchment
Layout:
Bicolumnar
Ruling:
Not visible
Dimensions
Page:
316mm (h) x 205mm (w)
Number of lines:
49-50
Number of columns:
2
Height of minims:
2mm
Space between lines:
4mm
Height of written space:
Upper margin:
Lower margin:
Inner margin:
Width of text 1:
Width of text 2:
Outer margin:
History and further information
Information on dismantling:
Dismantled presumably at a London binders, probably at the turn of the fifteenth to sixteenth century: the host volume for the two known fragments is a copy of work printed in Basel in 1498, and the binding may been added either before or during the ownership of that volume by the first recorded possessor, Robert Benet.
Number of folios represented:
2
Date published:
Friday, May 29, 2015 - 07:41
Date last updated:
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - 11:56
