Layout: 1 column, 15 lines of text with 15 4-line musical staves Decoration: 5 1-line and 1-staff high initials in alternating blue and red, with prompts and rubrics in red 1 3-line and 3-staff high illuminated initial in blue with white accents inhabited by the Virgin Mary surrounded by four angels on liquid gold grounds, the entire composition set within a red-orange frame with gold highlights 4-line musical staves in red (12 mm) w/ square notation Heavily worn and cockled, but still legible Earlier modern owner's pencil framing notes at bottom margin or recto and interior margin of verso Chants and music for Matins on the feast of the Ascension of the Virgin Mary Incipit: Venite adoremus regem regum Explicit: habitatio est in te sancta dei genitrix . P . Funda
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