Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 28
No section of text from this manuscript is presently known but we can surmise something of its character from the two fragments that do survive. Each is a strip the width of the bottom margin and the ruling visible shows that the layout was bicolumnar. Each fragment also includes marginalia, in a script with anglicana 'r', and written in plummet: the topics noted by this reader -- the punishment for theft, and an aspect of inheritance -- reveal that this must have been a legal manuscript.
Textual information
Subject:
Law, Unidentified
Language:
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script:
none
Material information
Material:
Parchment
Layout:
Bicolumnar
Decoration:
Signs of filigree initials.
Ruling:
vertical borders visible, including an extra line in the central reservation
Dimensions
Page:
(width x 3/2) = 282mm (h) x 188mm (w)
Number of columns:
2
Height of written space:
Width of written space:
Lower margin:
Inner margin:
Width of text 1:
Reservation 1:
Width of text 2:
Outer margin:
History and further information
Information on dismantling:
The nature of the surviving fragments suggests the binder consciously chose to use sections with the least text possible.
Number of folios represented:
2
