Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 24
Two fragments survive in one binding. Each provides an upper part of a folio, and we may assume that they once formed a single piece, which was once wrapped around the printed pamphlet to which they are now flyleaves (the rubbing on the outer side of each fragment is consonant with this hypothesis). On this basis, we can extrapolate the probable over-all size of the folio, from what would have been a substantial manuscript.
Textual information
Subject:
Medicine
Language:
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script:
Gothic
Script detail:
Textura Rotunda
Place of production:
S. France or N. Italy
Material information
Material:
Parchment
Layout:
Bicolumnar
Decoration:
Tituli are rubricated. Initials are two-line lombards in blue with red penwork flourishing.
Ruling:
none visible
Dimensions
Page:
375??mm (h) x 250?mm (w)
Number of lines:
36?? (31 visible)
Number of columns:
2
Height of minims:
3mm
Space between lines:
6mm
Height of written space:
Width of written space:
Upper margin:
Inner margin:
Width of text 1:
Reservation 1:
Width of text 2:
Outer margin:
History and further information
Information on dismantling:
The manuscript appears to have been available for dismantling in England at the start of the early seventeenth century, the date of the pamphlet to which it is now a set of flyleaves. The rubbing on the outer sides of the leaves suggests it was originally used as a wrapper. Early in life, the pamphlet and its wrapper seem to have been damaged by water, after which the present limp vellum binding was added.
Number of folios represented:
1?
