Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 38
Only two insubstantial strips have so far been identified from this manuscript but what does survive demonstrates that this was a volume of plainchant in large format, presumably for choir use.
Textual information
Subject:
Music
Palaeography
Type of script:
Gothic
Place of production:
England
Date of production:
s. xv
Material information
Material:
Parchment
Layout:
Long lines?
Dimensions
Page:
350+mm (h) x ?235+mm (w)
Number of lines:
12+ four-line staves of music with 1 line of text for each stave
Height of minims:
3mm
History and further information
Information on dismantling:
It is notable that the dismantling of this manuscript can be dated, on the evidence of the binding in which it appears, to a five year period: 1599-1604. The binder who used it may have had access to it for some years before that date-range but it still suggests that the volume had managed to survive the Reformation destructions of a half a century earlier.
Number of folios represented:
?1
