Layout: 1 column, 17 lines Decoration: On both folios: 1-line initials in liquid gold set on irregularly sized horizontal line fillers with alternating grounds of red and blue, each with liquid gold accents, and prompts and rubrics in red Decoration: Fol. 351.20: 4-line initial "D" rendered as thick green acanthus leaves with 4 red fruits and flowers placed equidistantly around the circumference of the bow and a blue flower with red center inside the letter, all highlighted with white penwork and set against liquid gold grounds. Decoration: Fol. 351.82: Brown decorative penwork in 3 columns extending down from a full line red and blue bar border with liquid gold highlights to rubricated text introducing the Verses of St. Bernard Ruled in ink Offset of marginal decorations from facing folios in margins of both leaves, including offsets of full border decoration from what would have been the verso of fol. 19 with opening of the prayer to God the Father For the text presented on fol. 351.20, see Susan Boynton, "Libelli Precum in the Central Middle Ages," in A History of Prayer: The First to the Fifteenth Century. Edited by Roy Hammerling. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2008, pp. 255-318, pp. 302-303 Incipit: Fol. 351.20: secula filium ineffabiliter genu / isti Fol. 351.82: versione divinitatis in carnem : sed Explicit: Fol. 351.20: Oratio ad Spiritum Sanctum Fol. 351.82: Los versos de sant Bernat Fol. 351.20: Portion of a prayer to the Father, entirety of a prayer to Christ the Son, and a rubric for a prayer to the Holy Spirit Fol. 351.82: Conclusion of the Athanasian Creed, with opening rubric for the Verses of St. Bernard
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