In contrast to I, this volume, also a miscellaneous sermon collection and very probably made at Worcester, is considerably less neat in both form and contents. It is a composite book, made up of paper and some parchment. It contains as many as eighteen separate booklets, some of one, many of two, and one of three quires. These are written in at least a dozen different hands, all fifteenth-century scripts, Anglicana with Secretary features or different grades of Secretary. The booklets also employ different layouts – one or two columns – and small decorative features, including different ways of indicating the beginning of a new sermon. Both layout and script occasionally change within the same quire. In all, I count over thirty changes of hand. Three different sets of quire signatures and a subsequent medieval foliation (beginning only at modern f. 18) indicate that the booklets were combined several times in different ways before reaching their present order. There is no table of contents.

Gathered here are 167 sermons (including the repeats) occasionally interspersed with notes and pious stories. They are for Sundays and feast days, for saints’ feasts, and for special occasions, and occur in a random mixture. It is hard to discern an organizing principle for the individual booklets and for the collection as a whole; there is certainly nothing like the neat arrangement found in collection X. But there is one important exception.