Fragment no. 14 - Bischoff Manuscript Collection

Fragment no. 14 - Bischoff Manuscript Collection

Melbourne, Mon. Uni. Ms. Bischoff frag. 014

Written Area: 215 x 50mm. Number of Lines: 23. Line Height: 9.35mm. One rubricated initial on recto. Lead? line ruling. Littera Gothica Textualis Formata.

Content: Liturgical text? Does include Biblical texts (recto Matthew 18:24-25; verso Daniel 2:12-19) but also non Biblical text on the recto, so not from a Bible. Original text seemingly in 2 columns, with only a couple of words missing from the text in this fragment. Have Colker's notes.

Place of Origin: Germany

From the Monash Rare Books collection of over one hundred fragments of medieval manuscripts and early printed books from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries that had belonged to the world-renowned authority on medieval palaeography (the study of handwriting), Professor Bernhard Bischoff (1906-1991).

Latin

Physical Size: 1 parchment fragment (215 x 63mm) glued to a strip of cream coloured paper (208 x 41mm) which is attached by a piece of tape to a piece of brown paper (182 x 187mm).

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