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Velvety parchment of medium thickness, well prepared but very worn from use
The inscription on the scroll reads: Ave gratia plena dominus tecum (Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with you).
The inscription on the scroll reads: Hic est filius meus dilectus in quo mihi bene complacui (This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased).
The inscription reads: S. Maria (Holy Mary).
The inscription reads: Scs. Nicolaus eps. (Holy Bishop Nicolaus).
Original (or possibly thirteenth- or fourteenth-century) beech boards covered by much-abraded leather with five metal bosses on upper and lower boards; remains of leather straps visible; thirteenth- or fourteenth-century charters used as pastedowns on both boards (lower board pastedown now numbered as final folio)