Physical description: On parchment. iii + 547 + ii leaves, 245 x 177 mm. Imperfect.
Contents: Wanting all after Acts VIII. Marginal subject headings and references cropped by binder. Two initials cut from f.514.
Decoration: Historiated initials on f.1 and to mark books of Bible and eight divisions of psalter in pink and blue with white on gold, with gold frame; decorated initials to mark prologues; 2-line and 1-line red or blue to mark chapters and tables of chapters.
Binding: early 19th-century English binding.
Provenance 1300-1400: Later ownership inscription of the Abbey of S. Denis at Reims f.5. Contemporary(?) marginal notes.
Provenance 1800-1831: Inscription of the Liverpool artist Nathaniel George Philips (1795-1831) f.i verso
Provenance 1832-1832: Inscription Theodore W. Rathbone (Theodore Woolman Rathbone, 1798-1863) f.ii with note dated 1832; bookplate of Theodore W. Rathbone, Allerton Priory [Liverpool].
Provenance 1917-1917: Gift of May Rathbone (1860(?)-1960), granddaughter of Theodore W. Rathbone.
1983: N. R. Ker, Medieval manuscripts in British libraries (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983).
