Vellum manuscript leaves. 2 folios, written in long lines, 2-line and 1-line initials. Folio 1 contains 4 lines from an unidentified text; the Trinubium of St Anne, and part of an abbreviated version of Jerome's Tractatus de Psalmo CXXXII. Folio 2 contains part of a discussion on Christ's entry into Jerusalem, his betryal and crucifixion. Reused as pastedowns. Folio 2 annotated in a 16th century hand. John Edward Jackson (1805-91) was a clergyman antiquary who spent his working life in the South West of England, beginning his career as curate at Fairleigh Hungerford (Somerset) in 1834, and in 1845 appointed rector of Leigh Delamere (Wiltshire), a post which he retained for the rest of his life. He had a life long interest in the antiquities and local history of the area, and was an archivist for the Marquess of Bath at Longleat. The so-called Jackson Fragments are a fairly random collection of vellum manuscript fragments, which were often cut up and used as parts of book bindings. Not surprisingly, most of them are from liturgical, legal and theological manuscripts. Jackson’s library collections were sold after his death in two sales by Hodgsons in May and November 1895; these fragments can probably be identified as lot 1106 in the November sale ‘Old parchment and other deeds. A parcel’, which was sold for £1 2s. Adapted from: 'Catalogue of the Jackson Collection of manuscript fragments in the Royal Library Windsor Castle', by Jenny Stratford (London: Academic Press, 1981)