Commentary on Revelations

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Chicago, University of Chicago Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, Codex Ms 686

General Information

Title Commentary on Revelations
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Flanders
Script, Hands

Northern Gothica Textualis libraria. Two-compartment A.

Original Condition

Number of Columns 2
Width of Columns 55 – 61 mm
Ruling Ruled and lined in double columns, evidence of pricking at outside margins.
More about the Condition

Column and inner margin widths vary significantly between the two fragments, and the width of the fragments differs by 1 cm, suggesting that these two pieces of parchment are not from the same bifolium. 

The top fragment in the image measures 80 x 314 mm. Column widths range from 59-61 mm.

The bottom fragment measurs 81 x 304 mm. Column widths range from 55-59 mm

Current Condition

Dimensions 80 x 312 mm
More about the Current Condition

2 parchment bifolia sections, one (labelled "top") from the middle of a page, one with bottom margin visible ("bottom"). Fragment dimensions: "Top" 79 x 312 mm; "Bottom" 80 mm x 308 mm.

Book Decoration and Musical Notation

Description

Red underlining on sentences throughout.

History

Provenance

No information on later use, no annotations. Owned by Sigurd and Gudrun Wandel. Their collection of 68 manuscript fragments was acquired by the University of Chicago in 1926.