Layout: 1 column, 25 lines Decoration: Surrounding each page's text block is border of alternating pin or maroon and blue bars infilled with fine white penwork and burnished gold corners and central rectangles on the vertical bars of the frame, with an occasional red leaf painted in the corners. Decoration: 1- and 2-line initials in burnished gold on maroon and blue grounds with white penwork infill Fol. 160.5r: Half-page framed illumination of John the Evangelist writing on Patmos, with full floriated borders, and a pair of satyrs bearing a blue shield emblazoned with three fleurs-de-lis, the shield surmounted by a gold crown Decoration: Fol. 160.43v: Full-page illumination opening Matins in the Hours of the Holy Spirit, illustrating Pentecost, with the Virgin Mary enthroned, the dove of the Holy Spirit above her, with the twelve Apostles surrounding her, the entire illustration framed in burnished gold Modern pencil foliation at bottom right corner of each folio's recto The coat of arms at the foot of fol. 160.5r is the Arms of France Moderne, used between 1376-1469. This manuscript likely was made after this date, however, closer to the beginning of the sixteenth century Incipit: Fol. 160.5: Initium sancti evangelii secundum / Iohannem Fol. 160.9: introduxit petrum . Dixit ergo petro Fol. 160.10: …is Nunc autem regnum meum non Fol. 160.11: autem parasceve pasche hora quasi sexta Fol. 160.12: est cum eo Ad ihesum autem cum venissent ut Fol. 160.20: pro nobis Diffusa est gratia in labiis Fol. 160.43: corona glorie iacuit supine Fol. 160.46: peccatam nec est in spiritu eius dolus Fol. 160.67: vtero translatus ad tumulum Numquid Fol. 160.68: ...buntur vbertate . Pinguescent spe / ciosa Explicit: Fol. 160.5: unigeniti a patre plenum gratie et veritatis Deo gratias Fol. 160.9: mei utique decertarent ut non traderer iude… Fol. 160.10: …licostratos hebraice autem gabatha Erat Fol. 160.11: quidem fregerunt crura ; et alterius qui crucifixus Fol. 160.12: erat monumentum / posuerunt ihesum Deo gratias Fol. 160.20: Te deum laudamus te dominum confitemur Fol. 160.43: Sis michi solatium in mortis agone . A . / Ad matutinas de Sancto Spiritu Fol. 160.46: et gemitus meus a te non est absconditus Fol. 160.67: be / nignitatis tue et campi tui reple... Fol. 160.68: vivet et omnis qui vivit et credit in me Fol. 160.5: Gospel reading, John 1:1-14 Fol. 160.9: Gospel reading, John 18:16-36 Fol. 160.10: Gospel reading, John 18:36-19:14 Fol. 160.11: Gospel reading, John 19:14-32 Fol. 160.12: Gospel reading, John 19:32-42 Fol. 160.20: Lessons 1-3 for the third Nocturn of Matins in the Hours of the Virgin, concluding with the "Te Deum" Fol. 160.43: End of Vespers and Compline in the Hours of the Cross, with a rubric introducing Matins in the Hours of the Holy Spirit Fol. 160.46: Portion of the Seven Penitential Psalms, including Psalms 31:2-11 and 37:1-10 Fol. 160.67: Lesson 9 in the third Nocturn of Matins and the beginning of Lauds in the Office of the Dead Fol. 160.68: Lauds in the Office of the Dead, with a portion of the Canticle of Ezechias (Isaiah 38:10-14)
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