Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 1
Only one fragment, a near-complete folio, of this glossed Gospel according to John is presently known. Presumably it was originally a complete New Testament, if not a complete Bible. It would appear to have been dismantled early in the Henrician reforms towards Protestantism, probably in 1537.
Textual information
Subject:
Bible
Title of work:
New Testament (Gospel of John)
Language:
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script:
Gothic
Script detail:
Textura
Material information
Material:
Parchment
Layout:
and interlinear, Long lines with glossing in an extra column
Decoration:
Running header in red and blue. Likewise, glosses are separated by capitula marks alternating in red and blue.
Ruling:
ruled in plummet for the gloss
Dimensions
Page:
300mm (h) x 190+mm (w)
Number of lines:
21
Number of columns:
1 + gloss
Height of minims:
4mm
Space between lines:
10mm
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:
Number of lines (gloss):
54
Space between lines (gloss):
2mm
Height of minims (gloss):
1mm
History and further information
Information on dismantling:
The volume in which the lone fragment survives as a pastedown provides a book printed in Augsburg in 1537 and presumably imported nearly immediately into England, as the rolls on the binding are known from examples, the last of which is from that same year.
Number of folios represented:
1
