Layout: 2 columns, 45 lines Decoration: 1 10-line and 5 3-line initials in blue with contrasting red penwork extending ambitiously into the margins and intercolumnar spaces, liturgical prompts and rubrics in red, and a single pilcrow in blue Ruled in brown ink Recycled as a binding fragment, with timmed margins (though the text block is complete) English origin of the fragment partly indicated by the effaced abbreviation for "Pope" in the rubric introducing Gregory the Great's homily, suggesting the manuscript was still in use during and after the English Reformation Provenance: Donated by Philip Millburn in honor of Marcia Preston (Columbus, OH) in summer 2015 From the so-called "Breviary of Isabella Neverbegood" Incipit: tunc erat in terra . Explicit: Preces nostras . Ad Text and readings for Quinquagesima Sunday, including readings from St. John Chrysostom's sermon, "De fide Abraham et immolatione Isaac" and Gregory the Great's homily "Redemptor noster providens ex passione mea"
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