Fragment

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.13 ii

Lost manuscript:

Babel MS 15

Host volume:

Colchester: University of Essex Library, Harsnett K.a.13

Textual information

Subject:

English Law, Law

Author of work:

Ranulf de Glanvill (d. 1190) (attrib.)

Title of work:

Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regum Angliae

Section:

Lib. I, cc. 31-32 [ed. G. D. G. Hall (Oxford, 1965), pp. 19-20 and 21]

Orientation:

foot to gutter

Transcription:

(verso) vicibus eo semper absente … ad diem primum non venerit (last line illegible)
(recto) expensas et primum … incipiet alii es. fil. dicunt … quosdam et totum custum amit¦¦

Palaeography

Type of script:

Protogothic

Place of production:

England

Date of production:

s. xii

s. xii ex

Material information

Material:

Parchment

Type of fragment:

Pastedown

Fragment type detail:

raised, at back

Element of folio:

middle section

Ruling:

Lightly ruled in plummet with double bounding lines

Further information

Notes:

The edge of the margin of the recto has two early (s. xiii in?) annotations – each identifying characters alluded to in the text. In the first case, ‘alii es. fil. dicunt’ is noted to refer to ‘Osbertus filius herevei’ (that is, Osbert fitz Hervey). In the second, the text has only ‘alii’ (corrected from ‘aliis’) to which the annotator adds ‘h.w.’. These marginalia are noticed and discussed by G. D. G. Hall in his edition (pp. xliii-xlvii; note that he misconstrues the second). See further the headnote to the Babel manuscript.

Bibliography:

Pearson, Oxford, 830.9.

Colchester Harsnett K.a.13 back flyleaf verso

Dimensions

Fragment:

148mm (h) x 97mm (w)

Number of lines:

Number of columns:

Height of minims:

3mm

Space between lines:

7mm

Height of written space:

97mm

Width of written space:

106mm

Inner margin:

41mm