Layout: 1 column, Fol. 125.1: 19 Layout: Fol. 125.2: 33 on recto, 35 on verso lines Decoration: Rubrics in red, opening initial of each line stroked in red, 2-line initial opening verses on fol. 125.1v in red, with red penwork line-fillers concluding nearly every line Ruled in brown ink (just the frame, no lines) Portion of watermark of bull's head on fol. 125.1 MS text added to a later printed volume and begins on verso of printed colophon page (fol. 125.1r) Ownership inscription added to colophon matching inscription onf MS.MR.Frag.126 (from the same early-printed volume), with shorthand version of owner's name, and price of books (12 albos gulden) and price of binding (6 ?) The folios were excised from a printed edition of Johannes Marchesinus' Mammotrectus super bibliam (Strassburg: Martin Flach, 1494) Many of the verses found in Hans Walther. "Proverbia Sententiaeque Latinitatis Medii Aevi." Göttingen, 1963. Incipit: Fol. 125.1: Contra insulso villanos Fol. 125.2: Angele qui meus es . custos pietate superna Explicit: Fol. 125.1: et gehennam non videre Fol. 125.2: das synt zeleze ne meer Fol. 125.1 includes an apparently unpublished 19-line poem entitled "Contra insulso villanos" in leonine hexameter. The Poet's name, Gregorius, is given. Fol. 125.2 includes epigrams and verse maxims (mostly distichs) in Latin and three in German. Many are anti-feminist. The text opens with prayer to one's guardian angel, attributed variously to Anselm of Canterbury or Reginald of Canterbury
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