[GREGORY THE GREAT'S HOMILIES]

Substantial remnant of a bifolium, with almost all of a single column trimmed away at one edge, with text in double columns of 29 lines of a rounded Romanesque bookhand, written above topline and without biting curves, capitals touched in red, versal initials in red in margin, recovered from reuse on a later binding, and with reverse mostly illegible, and large cuts, holes and discoloured areas where the leaf was once pasted around a spine (with holes cut out for the thongs), overall fair condition, in total: 400 by 450mm (original leaf size: 400 by 280mm.)