Lost Manuscript

Babel MS 30

There are two identified fragments from two leaves, representing what would have been a large glossed legal volume, presumably of the complete Digest.

Textual information

Subject: 
Law
Civil Law
Author of work: 
Justinian
Title of work: 
Digestum (Infortiatum), with gloss (unidentified, Accursius?)
Language: 
Latin

Palaeography

Type of script: 
Gothic
Script detail: 
Textura
Place of production: 
Italy
Date of production: 
s. xiii 2

Material information

Material: 
Parchment
Layout: 
Bicolumnar with gloss
Decoration: 
Large initials are two- or three-line lombards in red or blue, with restrained flourishing in the other colour. Paraphs are blue.
Ruling: 
Simple ruling for frame in plummet, including frame for gloss, each line going to the edge. Fainter ruling for the writing lines.

Dimensions

Page: 

?387+mm (h) x ?258+mm (w)

Number of columns: 
2
Height of minims: 
2mm
Space between lines: 
6mm
Upper margin: 
55+mm
Lower margin: 
28+mm
Inner margin: 
?70+mm
Width of text 1: 
54mm
Reservation 1: 
11mm
Width of text 2: 
53mm
Outer margin: 
?70+mm
Space between lines (gloss): 
5mm
Height of minims (gloss): 
1mm

History and further information

Information on dismantling: 

The fact that these fragments were re-used in a Cambridge binding datable to the period 1515-30 implies that this manuscript was discarded by its former home before any Reformation purges of libraries.

Number of folios represented: 
2
Date last updated: 
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 07:58