Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 21
Only one fragment survives, providing sections from the Psalms. It may be that the original manuscript was a small, portable Bible: the overall measurements, extrapolated from this fragment, and the thinness of the parchment are compatible with this possibility.
Textual information
Subject:
Bible
Language:
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script:
Gothic
Script detail:
Textura
Place of production:
France
Material information
Material:
Parchment
Layout:
Bicolumnar
Decoration:
Filigree alternate blue and red initials for each verse, with pen-flourishing to fill lines.
Ruling:
Fully ruled with lines crossing the tramlines but not into the margins, and with double vertical borders and an extra vertical line in inner margin, 20mm from text
Dimensions
Page:
198++mm (h) x 178mm (w)
Number of lines:
48?
Number of columns:
2
Height of minims:
2mm
Space between lines:
4mm
Height of written space:
Width of written space:
Upper margin:
Lower margin:
Inner margin:
Width of text 1:
Reservation 1:
Width of text 2:
Outer margin:
History and further information
Number of folios represented:
1
Date published:
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 - 10:41
Date last updated:
Sunday, December 6, 2015 - 10:29
