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The manuscript's artistic centrepiece is a sequence of full-page miniatures, all set against burnished gold grounds. The miniatures form a Passion cycle immediately preceding the Canon of the Mass — the point in the liturgy where such prefatory image cycles were traditionally placed in thirteenth-century missals so that the celebrant would meditate on Christ's sacrifice just before the words of consecration.
The picture shows folio 149r, where the sequence begins. It depicts the Annunciation, set beneath two trefoiled arches: the angel Gabriel, his face now damaged, unfurls a scroll reading "AVE DOMINUS." At the same time, the Virgin responds with her own scroll inscribed "ECCE FIAT MICHI," as the dove of the Holy Spirit descends toward her ear. Three angels crown the arches above, two wearing crowns and one swinging a censer.
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