Binding: Not bound. Other decoration, f. 1r-v: 8-line decorated initial on recto (originally verso), formed of reserve parchment defined with red strips of varying widths on the outer edge. A stem with three, thick petals at circular terminus curves upward in interior. Number of scribes, f. 1r-v: 1. Script, f. 1r-v: Romanesque. Layout, f. 1r-v: Recto/verso sides as fragment are opposite to recto/verso in original ms. 1 col., probably of 2, single bounding lines. 21 lines visible, 7 mm apart. Ruling in leadpoint. Brown Ink.
Former Owner(s):
John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
John Bagford (1650s-1716) to St. Martin-in-the-Fields; sale 1861 to Sir Thomas Phillipps, n.15758; his sale 22 May, 1913, lot 742; Sir Sydney Cockerell (1867-1962) sale Sotheby's 3 April, 1957; William Salloch (Ossining NY) Cat. 258 (1968) to U. Missouri.
Bibliography: M. McC. Gatch, "Fragmenta Manuscripta and Varia at Missouri and Cambridge," Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society9 (1990) 434-75. f. 1r-v: Initial is in style of early Ottonian illumination, foliate decoration was widespread in English Mss of s. XII. f. 1r-v: Latin. f. 1r-v: Contains part of xvii.23, 24, and xviii.1.
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