Layout: 1 column, 16 lines Decoration: 4 2-line and 4 1-line initials in burnished gold on red and blue grounds with white penwork highlights; occasional horizontal bar line-fillers in blue and red with white penwork highlights and with gold bezants; exterior bar border on both sides of the folio composed of thin black vines terminating in gold ivy leaves and blue and red flowers Ruled in pink crayon Unusually large format Book of Hours with generous margins Similar in size and textual content to Spec.Rare.MS.MR.Frag.480, but from a different manuscript Text from the 15 Joys of the Virgin Mary Incipit: grant ioie que vous eustes quant Explicit: grant ioie que vous eustes
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