Manuscript codex. Palimpsest formed from an unidentified text. Title from printed catalog. Collation: Parchment, fol. ii + 138 + i; 16(-1-6) 2-178 1010; modern foliation fol. 8-145, front flyleaf is fol. 1; refoliated fol. 1-138; Six folios the first quire have been removed; fol. 136v-138v blank. Layout: Written in 15 long lines; ruled in green ink. Script: Written in caroline textualis. Decoration: Lower marginal decoration in red and green; fol. 9r: vine tendril; fol. 11r: a dog; fol. 20r: floral motif. Decorated initials in red and green, some filled with human faces: fol. 16r, 20v, 54v, 114r, and 130r. Origin: Written in Germany in the 11th century; decoration and prosodies added in the 12th century. Contemporary interlinear and marginal notes and corrections. Former owner's inscription: Liber sancti Pancratii monasterii in Hamersleue. Former owner's inscription: Liber sancti Pancracii martiris Hamersleue ordinis canonicorum regularium, Boecius de consolatione philosophia.
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