Fragment

Oxford: Christ Church, Archives, x(1).c.1.1

Host volume:

Oxford: Christ Church, Archives, x(1).c.1

Textual information

Subject:

Hagiography

Author of work:

Ato?, Rhygyfarch, Venantius Fortunatus

Title of work:

Vitae sanctorum

Section:

Mriracles of Milburga, David, Albinus

Transcription:

[fol. a recto, col. 1] ||tis auctoritate subnixa sunt … puella quedam moruid nomine ut michi|| [Ato? (cardinal bishop of Ostia), Miracula Mylburge, 7-8, ed. P. A. Hayward, English Historical Review, cxiv (1999), pp. 543–573 at pp. 571–572]
[fol. a recto, col. 2] ||ciuitate per annos singulos feria … qui in alijs miraculis quodam|| [Miracula Mylburge, 8, ed. Hayward, p. 572]
[fol. a verso, col. 1] ||minus enim me misit ad te … plebem perueniens quondam inuenit sancti||[a variant of Rhygyfarch, Vita David, 3-4, ed. R. Sharpe and J. Reuben Davies in J. Wyn Evans ed., St David of Wales (Woodbridge, 2007), p. 112]
[fol. a verso, col. 2] ||quem tenebat spiritus sancti gratia … Exinde perficiscens ad paulinum|| [a variant of Rhygyfarch, Vita David, p. 116]
[fol. b recto, col. 1] ||mentem imposuit tam fuit … se ceco lumen inuexit. Item cum|| [Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Sancti Albini, pr. PL, lxxxviii, col. 479-486 at col. 483B]
[fol. b recto, col. 2] ||dat ut se dignum duceret expectandum … metallum fusile gressum mouere|| [Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Albini, pr. PL, lxxxviii, col. 484B]
[fol. b verso, col. 1] ||elat insolencia de uocibus inclusorum … quadrus exiliens porte aditus fi|| [Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Albini, pr. PL, lxxxviii, col. 485A]
[fol. b verso, col. 2] ||cusatis defendere ipse potens est uindicare … valemus retexere facta sufficiat de plurimis|| [Venantius Fortunatus, Vita Albini, pr. PL, lxxxviii, col. 486A]

Palaeography

Type of script:

Protogothic

Place of production:

England

Date of production:

s. xii

s. xii ex

Material information

Material:

Parchment

Type of fragment:

Binding strip

Fragment type detail:

Originally wrapped around the spine, it is now stored horizontally at back of volume

Element of folio:

Foot of a bifolium

Ruling:

in plummet, with horizontals drawn across the central reservation

Decoration:

One simple blue initial at fol. a recto.

Further information

Notes:

At fol. a verso, in the gutter, a partially visible note in plummet.

Dimensions

Fragment:

60mm (h) x 550mm (w)

Number of lines:

Number of columns:

Height of minims:

3mm

Space between lines:

6mm

Height of written space:

50mm

Lower margin:

10mm

Inner margin:

29mm

Width of text 1:

82mm

Reservation 1:

17mm

Width of text 2: