Fragmentary leaf of a Glossed Gospels, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [France(?), 12th century (3rd? quarter)]

210 × 145 mm, the biblical text written in a central column on alternate lines, preserving 12 lines, in a handsome Romanesque script, flanked on each side by columns of gloss in smaller, more informal, scripts, by more than one scribe, capitals stroked in red, recovered from use in a binding, with consequent cropping of two sides, stains, etc.

The text comprises Matthew 7:10–16 which includes the comparison between false prophets and wolves in sheep’s clothing, and the so-called Golden Rule: “In everything do to others as you would have them do to you”.