| Description | Single leaf of parchment, cut to size for use as a binding cover. The text is from Homilia in Evangelia by Pope Gregory I, specifically chapters 3-5 from the Lessons on the Gospel According to John (John 15:12-16). A faded page identifier "lxxxi" is visible at the top of the recto (folded under).
Main body text is a protogothic bookhand in dark brown ink, written in two columns. The edge of the right-hand column (when viewed from the recto) has been cut and some of the text is missing. There are two blue initials and fragments of red pigment visible on the recto but which sit on top of the black text, probably transferred from another manuscript.
The text begins on the recto in chapter 3, but most of the text on the recto has been rubbed or washed away and is now illegible. A section visible at the right-hand edge can be identified as part of chapter 4: "Gaudetis de culmine, pensate quibus laboribus pervenitur ad culmen. Certe dum filii Zebedaei, interveniente matre, quaererent ut unus a dextris Dei et alius a sinistris sedere debuissent, audierunt...".
The verso begins in chapter 4, "Unde hoc nisi quia confortatus est...", and continues to chapter 5.
There is marginal and interlinear annotation at column A line 30 on f.1r; the interlinear "pro" appears to be in a later hand. |