Properly speaking, this volume, written entirely in one English Secretary hand of the early fifteenth century, is a preacher's notebook rather than a genuine sermon collection: its fifty-seven sermons are interspersed with notes, stories, excerpts, and longer treatises. Often a sermon ends indeterminately and its subject is continued in one or two notes, and occasionally it is hard to distinguish between a sermon and a longer note. But all the non-sermon material contained in the book would have been of use to a preacher or curate.

Although here and there two or three successive sermons stand in their liturgical sequence, overall this is a random collection. Of the sermons that are or can be assigned to a specific occasion, about thirty-six are for selected Sundays of the Church year, from 1 Advent to 21 Trinity, with concentration on Lent, Good Friday, and Easter. Two sermons are for saints’ feasts (Purification, All Saints; another sermon perhaps for St. John the Baptist), and one sermon is marked for the dedication of a church. Not all sermons have address forms, but of those that do, thirty-three address Karissimi and six Reuerendi. In one sermon (44) the preacher states that in his audience he sees both clerics and lay people (“seculares”) and that he will speak to both separately, which he then does. Another is addressed to Fratres and evidently directed to a university audience.