Preceded by 'Origo prophetiae David regis Psalmorum numero CL' (a prologue beg. 'Dauid filius Iesse cum esset') and the preface of Jerome.

At the end of the Psalter is added the canticle 'Pusillus eram', as if a 151st psalm. At fol. 149v follow the usual canticles, etc.:

The rubrics of the Psalms are noteworthy. The whole volume is written in gold letters on dark purple parchment, with illuminations chiefly in gold, red, white, or blue. At fol. 4 is a large B: at fol. 51v a full-page miniature of a tyrant overawed by prophets ('Quid gloriaris', ps. 51 [Engl. 52]), and a large letter on the next page: on fol. 100v is a miniature of an offering to God, illustrating ps. 101 (102), followed by a large letter. The volume as a whole is in good preservation. A facsimile of fols. 4r, 4V, is in the 1840 Catalogue as plate iv. A line in Rustic capitals is on fol. 66. The volume has been called 'Charlemagne's Psalter', and stated to be from the Old Royal Library of France: but there is no proof or even presumption that these descriptions are founded on fact. Waagen's idea (Art Treasures, iii. 87) that the MS. was written in England is probably incorrect.