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Text and Illuminations

Page 1r: with a large illuminated letter and the word "Januarius," followed by lists numbered from a-g, presumably representing the days of the week.

Pages 11r through 20v

Page 15r, Painting of The Virgin Mary enthroned with the Child Mary sitting on a green hill to the right under a canopy, to the left a city-wall in a landscape with a red sky decorated with golden scrolls. Full painted border with achantus scrolls in red and blue, and leaf and vine patterns fill the page around the painting around the painting.

Page 29v, containing a dense block of blackletter text, with 7 illuminated initial letters , and several horizontal ornaments that fill up empty space at the end of sentences.

Painting on page 39v of The Kiss of Judas (Betrayal in Gethsemane). There is a group of 7 people in the foreground, and trees in the background with an orange sun up above with rays of light. The margins around the painting are filled with a painted border of achantus scrolls in red and blue, and leaf and vine patterns.

Page 41r containing a painting of Christ before Annas. In the painting a seated man is facing a crowd of 8 people who are talking to him. The central figure in the crowd has a halo. Around the painting the page is filled with ornate leaf and vine patterning.

Page 56v, containing a painting of the Crucifixion with a painted border filling all of the page surrounding the painting, with achantus scrolls in red and blue and a leaf, flower and vine pattern throughout.

Page 68v, containing a dense block of blackletter text, with 4 illuminated initial letters, 3 red words, some gold counterspaces, and 2 ornaments that fill the space from the end of a sentence to the right margin.