The text is written in double columns; together the fragments form the greater part of a right-hand column, with the centre margin and isolated letters of the left-hand column also preserved. One side of the combined fragment contains the epistle of the Vigil of the Birthday of St John the Baptist (23 June); the writing on the other side cannot be read.

The fragments were recovered from the binding of a copy (pressmark E.190.a.1(1)) of ‘F. Alfonsi de Castro ... adversus omnes haereses libri XIIII’ (Coloniae, 1543), where they had been used as headbands, each fragment having been folded lengthwise around a cord and stitched thereto.