One hand, late Gothic bastarda. One-compartment a, loops for l, h, feetless minims.

Red Lombards (2 lines).

Alba Iulia, Batthyaneum Library, MS I.1, from which the fragment was extracted, is the former gradual of St. Michael's church in Cluj. The manuscript is most likely a local product, made for St. Michael's church in Cluj. St. Michael's feast is highlighted and introduced by a historiated initial in the MS (f. 187r, formerly f. 224). In 1528, the Renaissance chapel of St. Michael's church was finished (date carved in stone). The ironsmith who made the chapel gate also produced the gradual's massive clasps, and dated them (1528). This is the manuscript's terminus ante quem.

The gradual survived during the Reformation, was integrated in the Jesuit library (s. XVI-XVIII), and then into the library of the Catholic "Lyceum". In 1913, the MS was transferred to Alba Iulia by order of the Catholic bishop of Transylvania. By that time, the first and last quires of the manuscript had been mutilated by the Jesuits. Three such fragments (Fragm. Cod. Lat. 19-21) have been identifed so far in the bindings of books belonging to the Jesuits, who moved from Cluj-Mănăștur to Cluj and back again from 1579 to the eighteenth century.