Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 5
Only one tall, thin strip is presently known from this manuscript but that fragment is enough to suggest that this layout of this elegant Bible volume. The text missing between the two sides of the fragment is the length of 54 verses from the Pauline Epistles; the implication is that this was a bicolumnar manuscript, from which we have a cutting from the bottom left corner of a leaf.
Textual information
Subject:
Bible
Language:
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script:
Protogothic
Place of production:
England
Material information
Material:
Parchment
Decoration:
Three-line lombards, unadorned, in red for the opening of the chapters.
Ruling:
faint plummet
Dimensions
Page:
mm (h) x mm (w)
Number of lines:
17++
Number of columns:
2?
Height of minims:
3mm
Space between lines:
9mm
Lower margin:
Width of text 1:
Reservation 1:
Width of text 2:
History and further information
Information on dismantling:
Dismantled, presumably at the binders, in the last quarter of the sixteenth century or the very first years of the seventeenth.
Number of folios represented:
1
Date published:
Monday, July 6, 2015 - 17:11
Date last updated:
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - 11:56
