Lost Manuscript
Babel MS 7
Two consecutive leaves from this small, portable manuFurther informationscript are known.
Textual information
Subject:
Patristics
Author of work:
Augustine (354-430)
Title of work:
De immortalitate animae
Language:
Latin
Palaeography
Type of script:
Gothic
Script detail:
tiny, with some extravagant descenders and diagonal ascenders, and tall final s
Date of production:
s. xiii 1
Material information
Material:
Parchment
Layout:
Bicolumnar
Ruling:
Fully ruled in plummet with horizontal lines crossing the central reservation
Dimensions
Page:
193mm (h) x 105mm (w)
Number of lines:
41
Number of columns:
2
Height of minims:
1mm
Space between lines:
4mm
Height of written space:
Lower margin:
Inner margin:
Width of text 1:
Reservation 1:
Width of text 2:
History and further information
Information on dismantling:
The evidence of the binding suggests that this was dismantled in Oxford in the early 1550s. There are, however, no other fragments of this work recorded by Ker, Pastedowns or Pearson, Oxford.
Number of folios represented:
2
