The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark Jac.I.3.1) of ‘Illustrium Maioris Britanniae Scriptorum ... Summarium, in quinque partes divisum’ (1548), by John Bale, in which they had been used as pastedowns.

The fragment recovered from the front pastedown is part of a leaf possibly from a work on moral theology, but not one recorded in ‘Patrologia Latina’. The text is written in double columns in a hand of the late 14th or early 15th century. On the side formerly pasted to the cover are chapter-headings in red of Chapters 98 and 99.

The fragment recovered from the back pastedown contains an index (or more correctly, a contents list) written in a 14th-century hand, apparently referring (on the side formerly pasted down) to Chapters 55 and 56.