It contains a translation of the four gospels into the West Saxon dialect of Old English.
They are large, and appear alternately in red or blue with pen ornament of the other color.
The scribes worked from another manuscript[3] (which is extant) that is itself a copy of a manuscript[4] that in turn is a translation of the Vulgate, the Latin Bible that was the standard Biblical text of Western Christianity.
This manuscript was purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1671 from Robert Scot, a London bookseller who had bought part of the library of Baron Hatton shortly after he died.
Folio 62 is a replacement for the missing text, and shows clear evidence of being supplied by Parker, who perhaps paid a scribe to produce it.