The main Middle Dutch text written in a Northern gothica cursiva libraria. The Latin rubrics in a Northern gothica textualis libraria.

The page height can be measured on fragment B. The width of the page has been estimated in comparison with similar small-format manuscripts from this period, including the nine other early small Ruusbroec manuscripts with a similar layout identified by De Baere, and the small-format manuscripts produced at the charterhouse of Herne, studied by E. Kwakkel. Six of the early small-format manuscripts of Ruusbroec were produced at Herne.

While Gumbert, on the basis of a large representative sample of medieval manuscripts, postuled a proportion of 10/6 (1.67) for the height-width ratio of medieval manuscripts in general, the ratio is below that for the small-format manuscripts of Ruusbroec's works and similar codices, whose proportions range from 1.33 to 1.51. Using Gumbert's ratio would give a width of 90 mm, which seems too small given the amount of missing text (about half of the line on fragment A). The alternative estimates seem therefore to give a more suitable ratio to apply to this present fragment. The width of the written area may be estimated as between 90 and 95 mm.

Both fragments have been folded over lengthwise to be used in the construction of a stuck-on headband. Because of the glue to paste the headband onto the spine, the two parts of fragment B are still glued together and cannot be folded open. The result is that only the text on the outside of the fragment is currently visible.

Both fragments were recycled for a stuck-on headband for an otherwise unidentified volume. The width of the headbank must have been 72 mm.