Two unfinished bifolia, previously stuck to the book-block along there upper edges (f.2 now detached). Complete leaves must have been about 245 x 175 mm, writing space 165 x 122 mm, at least 20 long lines to the page ruled in ink. Written in two sizes of textura, competently. Unfilled spaces for initials, rubrics, music, and decoration. No marks of original permanent folding or of sewing or tacketing. Pricking for horizontal rules near the outer edges of the two first leaves. The present lower part of each open bifolium, being its conjoint leaf, is ruled but blank on both sides and now cut in width. The upper parts (i.e. the first leaves of both bifolia) contain: (a) f.1^r [P]rimo dierum omnium ... ; (b) f.1^v [E]terne rerum conditor ... ; (c) f.2^r [N]octe surgentes uigilemus ... ; (d) [E]cce iam noctis tenuatur vmbra; (e) f.2^v [I]am lucis orto sidere ... ; (f) [N]unc sancte nobis spiritus ... ; (g) [R]ector potens verax deus. Breviary for Sunday Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce and Sext. Obvious mistakes in spellings must account for the discarding of these bifolia, which were probably not from a book of English but of French use.

Blank, apart from 4 pink vertical lines per page, for accounts; a quarto leaf tipped to f.4 is a bill “To The Lord Bishop of Coventry & Lichfield”, for 16 books, with authors, titles and prices specified. Among the books listed the most recent appear to be Thomas Hyde, De historia Shahiludii, (1689), 6d; J. la Placette, Observationes historico ecclesiasticae, (1695), 1s. 6d; J. le Clerc, A supplement to Dr Hammond's paraphrase and annotations on the New Testament, (1699), 4s. Edward Chandler, bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, was translated to Durham in 1730. In Chandler's leather bound catalogue (II), which has books as late as 1716 in the main hand (p.103), the three works above are all added (p. 103, 169, 47), la Placette's being the 1718 ed., but Jo Masson, Vita Plinij Jun., (1709), is in the main hand (p. 133, 170) in (II), and is also listed in Chandler's earlier, paper bound, catalogue (I): Durham University Library Add. MSS 517-9. Presumably this was used as a bookmark and this, and the contemporary account-book leaves to which it is now attached where incorporated into the volume when it was rebound. .

One of fourteen extant copies of the Insular Version made on the Continent, belonging textually to a small group influenced by the Continental Version, of which the only complete copy (BNF fr.25284) belonged to the Celestines of Paris. This copy was abandoned approximately an eighth of the way from the end, lacking chapters 30 (part)-34. It has 86 divisions, as against 30 in the more normal arrangement. f.96 blank, pricked for frame but unruled.

Two consecutive leaves from an antiphonal, Commune sanctorum. Written space 215 x c. 140 mm 10 long lines + 4 line red staves. Written in textura; musical notation square. In almost all cases this material was used In natale plurimorum martyrum, see Hesbert ii,670-671; 5374 and 7054 are the exceptions and both have minor variants, 5375 and 7053, that were used then. The provision of four responsories for Nocturns I-II indicates a monastic use, and in the four instances above the fragment follows F, an antiphonal closely akin to a group of Cluniac books, Hesbert v, 424-5; while in five instances above this text is akin to L, an antiphonal from Benevento that belongs to a group disseminated through the Celestine order, Hesbert v, 106, 130, 433.