Fragment no. 25 - Bischoff Manuscript Collection

Fragment no. 25 - Bischoff Manuscript Collection

Melbourne, Mon. Uni. MS Bischoff frag. 025

Written Area: 64 x 245mm. Number of Lines: 9. Line Height: approx 5.67mm. No rulings. Cursive hand.

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).

Physical Size: 1 parchment fragment (64 x 252mm) once glued to a piece of brown onion skin paper (remnants remain at LHS of fragment) and possibly another piece of brown paper (remnants at RHS verso).

Out of copyright