Incipiunt interpretationes nominum hebraycorum

This incomplete copy of the Interpretation of Hebrew Names begins with "A[h]az apprehendens" and continues through "Tirus angustia v[e]l tribulatio s[i]v[e] plasmatio aut fortitudo." Written brown ink in a gothic book hand in double columns of 61 lines, ruled lightly with ink, the manuscript begins with an eight-line initial 'A' in blue with red decorations, with three-line initials each time the second letter changes and alternating red and blue (one-line) initials supplied by a rubricator. Guidance to the rubricator was provided by the scribe in two forms: first with a minuscule letter in brown or red, and second with a verbal directive in red in a form such as "Incipiunt per 'c' & post 'c' sequitur 'a.'"

Rectos of the 1st, 13th, 25th, and 37th leaves are numbered in Arabic numbers in ink in the lower left corners (in a different, apparently later hand) 32-35 respectively. Versos of 12th, 24th, and 36th leaves contain catchwords in the lower right corners. The manuscript therefore consists of three full 12-leaf quires (32-34) plus the first two leaves of the following quire (35), suggesting strongly that these surviving leaves were once preceded by 31 quires (372 leaves), and that they may have been part of the apparatus of a Bible.

The manuscript is bound in late 20th-century marbled boards, with a red morocco label on the front cover: Interpretations of Hebrew names / Manuscript on vellum / France 13th century." The scribe erred in recording the title, writing "omnium" instead of "nominum."