Fragment no. 20 - Bischoff Manuscript Collection

Fragment no. 20 - Bischoff Manuscript Collection

Melbourne, Mon. Uni. Ms. Bischoff frag. 020

Written Area: 65 x 27mm, 64 x 53mm, 65 x 26mm, 65 x 26mm, 70 x 132mm, 67 x 54mm. Number of Lines: 13, 15, 12, 7+5, 13. Line Height: 5mm. Rubrication. Some bookworm damage. Line and column rulings. Littera Gothica Textulis Rotunda.

Content: probably Civil Law. Fragments mention a will (testamentum), a freedman and freedmen (libertum, libertos), guilds and privileges (collegia, priuilegi-). 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: 6 parchment fragments (65 x 27mm, 64 x 63mm, 65 x 26mm, 65 x 26mm, 70 x 132mm, 67 x 68mm) glued to a sheet of brown paper (315 x 163mm).

Out of copyright