Layout: 1 column, 20 lines Decoration: 1 2-line initial "I" in blue with white highlights and flanked by red flowers on burnished gold grounds, with the crossbards of the letter extending laterally and comprising a vertical blue and white bar border extending the length of the column and into the upper and lower margins terminating in burnished gold ivy leaves Ruled in plummet Manuscript written for a female community, with many references to Mary Magdalene throughout the original parent codex, suggesting a possible connection to a Magdalene house comprised of penitent prostitutes. Much of the original manuscript included music. Incipit: despicias opera manuum / tuarum Explicit: lavero te / non habebis partem me End of a prayer and opening of the Gospel reading (John 13:1-8) for Maundy Thursday
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