Layout: 2 columns, 24/27 lines Decoration: 1 3-line, 2 2-line, and 15 1-line initials in red, with prompts, rubrics, and liturgical instructions in red Recycled as binding fragments, each folio trimmed but mostly complete and legible Ruled in drypoint Includes 3 musical staves of 4 lines in red, with square notation Added texts for Sarum Use for a requiem mass and for the sacrament of marriage. Fol. 134.1: The requiem mass with a chant to be sung while at the gravesite or in transit to the cemetery. Fol. 134.2: Specific instructions that the marriage blessing is not to be offered in cases of bigamous marriage. A definition of bigamy follows, along with a description of how the question of bigamy was discussed and determined at the papal palace and brought to England in 1311 (or 1321) by magister John Kampstede (Haystead), followed by a copy of the papal decree Incipit: Fol. 134.1: gentes ubi est deus eorum Fol. 134.2: Et notandum est Explicit: Fol. 134.1: Finitis orationibus aperiatur sepulcrum Fol. 134.2: Iohannis proprie xxii ut supra
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