A single leaf on parchment, c. 345 x 266 mm, from a Missal with a later 19th century Gothic improvement partial decorated border.
 
This leaf is ruled in ink, c. 223 x 168 mm (ruled), for two columns of twenty-eight lines with cursive bastarda script in brown ink in two different sizes, rubrics in red ink, underlined in red ink, interlinear Roman Numerals in red ink, one single line paragraph mark in burnished gold on mauve grounds with white highlights, with eight two-line initials in gold on blue and mauve grounds with white highlights. The verso containing a three sided partial border outlined in red ink, complete with vines in black ink with gold disks, strawberries in red and white, and flowers rendered in blue, red, white and pink with green and gold leaves. The border is a later addition to the leaf, and is an example of 19th century gothic 'improvement'. Modern pencil notation to the upper and lower border of the recto, ‘3500’ and ‘SAN2533100.’
 
The main text to the recto, which finishes on the verso, contains the genealogy of Jesus Christ according to Matthew 1-16 which begins ‘Liber generationis Jesu Xpi filii David, filii Abraham’, ‘The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham’, which opens with a decorated two-line initial ‘L’. The verso contains text for Mass, including the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, which begins ‘Unigeniti tui, D[omi]ne, nobis succurrat humanitas, ut, qui natus de Virgine Matris integritatem non minui’, ‘May the humanity of your only begotten Son, O Lord, help us, so that the integrity of Him who was born of a Virgin Mother may not be diminished.’
 
A very good example of a missal leaf and later decoration. The parchment has some spotting, very small blemish to lower margin, small disc of candle wax to recto partially obscuring a word, two paper tabs pasted to the top of the recto.
 
There are two leaves held in institutions that appear to be from the same parent manuscript. One is at the Bridwell Library (MS 41 fragment), and the other is at the Willis Library, University of North Texas, Denton. Both exhibit the same 19th century gothic ‘improvements’ as the present example.