Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 41
A single fragment is at present known from this manuscript but it does provide the full width of a folio with text of the Decretals and extensive commentary. It appears to have been imported into England soon after production and to have survived into the early seventeenth century.
Textual information
Subject:
Canon Law, Law
Author of work:
Gregory IX, pope 1227-41
Title of work:
Decretals (with commentary)
Language:
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script:
Gothic
Script detail:
textura rotunda
Material information
Material:
Parchment
Layout:
Bicolumnar with gloss
Decoration:
Ruling:
lightly in plummet
Dimensions
Page:
278?+mm (h) x 185mm (w)
Number of lines:
23?
Height of minims:
3mm
Space between lines:
5mm
Height of written space:
Upper margin:
Lower margin:
Inner margin:
Width of text 1:
Reservation 1:
Width of text 2:
Reservation 2:
Width of text 3:
Outer margin:
Space between lines (gloss):
3mm
Height of minims (gloss):
2mm
History and further information
Information on dismantling:
Used as a wrapper, presumably in England, for a pamphlet printed in Venice in 1611, the manuscript from which it came would appear to have survived into the seventeenth century before being dismantled.
Provenance:
There are annotations, both textual and figurative (faces drawn next to the main body of the Decretals); these show anglicana features (s. xiii/xiv), demonstrating that this manuscript was used in England in the Middle Ages.
Number of folios represented:
2
Notes:
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