Ecclesiasticus

Ecclesiasticus

Melbourne, Mon. Uni. MS Bischoff frag. 024

Written Area: 78 x 62mm. Number of Lines: 17. Line Height: approx 2.18mm. No rulings. Very faint writing at the top - perhaps indicates something has been erased? Some bookworm damage. Uses both Arabic and Roman numerals.

First Line: Eccle[siasticus]: 32. Last Line: rationib[us] in mala co[n]vertunt[ur].

Contents: Passages from the Books of Ecclesiasticus - 32:13, 32:6, 32:10-11; 29:28; 39:30-32.

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 vellum (?) fragment (153 x 69mm) glued to a piece of lined white paper (161 x 91mm) glued to a piece of brown paper (191x 151mm).

Out of copyright