A single leaf on parchment, c. 397 x 260 mm, from a recovered binding waste with text from the Feast days of Saint Felicity and Saint Clement.
 
The parchment edges have been trimmed to create the turn-ins that would have fit the codex that it once covered. For the side where text remains, it is ruled in dry-point, c. 315 x 94 (column) mm, for two columns of thirty-six lines with Romanesque script in brown ink, rubrics in red ink, one five-line initial ’I’ in red, foliation to the upper-turn-in, ‘cxlvj’. Parchment ties and string are visible on the text side, as well as stitch holes from where the cover was sewn to the boards and spine.
 
The hair side of the parchment has likely been rubbed with a pumice stone to create the parchment binding, with the exception of some turn-ins. The parchment has darkened where the spine would have been. A shelf-mark label remains at the top of the spine, ‘5.b / 29’, and a mark from a previous label remains at the tail of the spine. The covers have two seventeenth-century inscriptions, most likely shelf-marks, one reads, ‘20 / 50/ 17.’
 
The text contains readings for the Feast Day (23rd November) of two saints from Rome; Saint Felicity and Saint Clement. The left column begins with the text: ‘Respondit [Vitalis qui] melius optat vivere,’ (‘​​Vitalis, who wishes to live better, responded’, which is from the Passio Sanctae Felicitatis. The rubric in the right hand column reads: ‘Incipit expositio Greg[o]rii epi[scopi] Tironensis ęccl[esi]ę liber miraculoru[m] Clementis martiris’; (‘The exposition of Gregory, Bishop of Tiron, begins with the miraculous book of Clement the Martyr’).
 
This is a very good example of binding waste. It is largely complete, with minor trimming, there are significant holes from binding stitching and a vertical cut on one of the turn-ins. There is staining and rippling on the parchment.