Fragment no. 19 - Bischoff Manuscript Collection

Fragment no. 19 - Bischoff Manuscript Collection

Melbourne, Mon. Uni. Ms. Bischoff frag. 019

Written Area: a) 41 x 45mm, b) 47 x 75mm. Number of Lines: 11 (both fragments). Line Height: about 5mm. Rubrication. Some bookworm damage. No line/column rulings. Littera Gothica Textulais Rotunda.

Content: A Canon Law Notice. beatissimo archiepiscopo appears in b). A section of b) is titled De priuileg<io?> and begins Multis et uariis modis. Have Colker's notes.

Place of Origin: Bologna?

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: 2 parchment fragments (a. 41 x 50mm, b. 47 x 75mm) originally glued to white paper, now glued to brown paper (125 x 263mm).

Out of copyright