The manuscript consists of two originally separate parts:

(i) containing 'Carmina' (folio 1), 'Epodi' (folio 41), and 'Carmen saeculare' (folio 50); and

(ii) containing 'De arte poetica' (folio 51), 'Epistolae' (folio 58), and 'Sermones' (folio 81).

It presents basically a Ψ text, most closely related to δ (Brit.Mus.Harl.MS.2725, 9th century) and π (Paris.lat.10310, 9th century), with some contamination from Ξ bringing it into occasional agreement with [?] (Paris.lat.7973, 9th-10th century), [?] (Paris.lat.8213, late 12th century), and other recentiores.

Headings and initials (some ornamental) in red. Different hands wrote (i) and (ii) (other slight differences are probably due to change of pen).

The second folio corresponds to that of a manuscript of Leicester Abbey (number 574 in the late 15th-century catalogue edited by M R James in ‘Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society’, xxi), but this means little in a poetical text and this manuscript has no English connections.

On the inside front cover is a late 18th-century pencil note in French on the order of the poems, and the pressmark [?]. On folio iv verso is the note `ce manuscrit est du commencement du quatorzième siècle. Van Praet`, presumably by Joseph B B van Praet, the bibliographer.