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The Eusebian canons precede on fols. 1v-52, finely written in gold on purple, within arches and pillars of gold. On fols. 6v, 69v, are illuminated figures of the two evangelists in Byzantine style, and the next page to each is also fully illuminated, and fol. 7v is in large gold capitals.

The front cover is overlaid with brass, and an ivory carving (6 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.) in deep relief is let into it, representing Christ surrounded by the symbols of the four Evangelists with figures representing earth and sea beneath, in parts damaged, within a border. The flat brass frame is elaborately engraved with figures of Christ, Evangelists, an angel, etc. The whole has been reproduced in W. Salt Brassington's Historic Bindings in the Bodleian Library (1891), plate 2. The date of the ivory and brass may be the same as the writing in the book. See Waagen's Treasures of Art (1854), iii. 97.

On fols. 5v, 1r are lists of persons, often with their wives: the former perhaps late 12th cent.: the latter of about A.D. 1200 and evidently connected with the district just North of Laon, among the names of places being Laudunum (Laon), Guse (Guise), Sanctus Nicolaüs in Sylva, etc.