Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 22
No text from this manuscript and only the thinnest of strips survive but we can surmise something of its nature: we have the full width of the page which demonstrates this was a substantial book. The layout, bicolumnar with an extra column to the left reserved, it seems, for the initial, suggests that it was a liturgical volume. It would appear that the text and illumination were discarded, with the binder interested in using only those elements with the least signs of intervention.
Textual information
Subject:
Unidentified
Palaeography
Type of script:
none
Material information
Material:
Parchment
Dimensions
Page:
450+?mm (h) x 298mm (w)
Number of columns:
1 + 2
Inner margin:
Width of text 1:
Width of text 2:
Reservation 2:
Width of text 3:
Outer margin:
History and further information
Information on dismantling:
The thin strips used to strengthen outermost gatherings of the large volume in an undatable limp binding.
Number of folios represented:
1?
