Foliation: i-iii (19th century) + 52 + iv-vii (as ff. i-iii) ff.
Number of lines: 17 lines
Language: French and Latin
Script: Gothicizing script (imitation of a 14th-century book script).

Textual content:
ff. 8v-10r: Canon of the Mass
ff. 17r-19v: Marriage Mass (‘Messe de marriage’)
ff. 24r-43v: Vespers and Compline on Sundays
ff. 44r-48v: Litany of saints
ff. 49r-50v: 8 collects
ff. 51r-52v: Suffrage to St Michael

Decoration :
Each page with a frame border containing illuminated ornament and pictures. On each page are the names of the noble lady or ladies who financed the manuscript, written at the bottom right; half-way up the inner margin, one or more usually two shields with the arms of the sponsor.

Figurative scenes:
f. 1r: Arms of royalist France (Azure, three fleur-de-lys or) beneath a royal crown in a white cartouche set in a red quatrefoil on a ground of textured gold.
f. 2r: Henri IV (r. 1589-1610) on horseback welcomed at the gates of Paris
f. 3r: A lady in white with a blue cloak decorated with fleur-de-lys, symbolizing France, indicates to the infant Comte de Chambord the castle of Chambord, bought for him on his birth by public subscription.
f. 6r: Louis IV (r. 936-954) disembarking from a ship on his return from exile in 936 to unite France, greeted by nobles who offer him their swords, with a scroll inscribed Louis d’Outremer.
f. 7r: In the outer margin, Virgin and Child, standing on a half-moon, within an architectural frame.
f. 9r: Vignette in the lower margin with St Genevieve, sitting with distaff supervising sheep; an angel descends and points to two lilies; a scroll inscribed Sancta Genova at the head of the page.
f. 10v: In the outer margin, St Michael, with a banner inscribed In hoc signo vinces, slaying a dragon; in the lower margin a vignette featuring the Crowning of David.
f. 13v: Whole-page picture of an open book, the text of the Missal on the right page, the left-page miniature of the Virgin kneeling at prayer.
f. 16r: St Michael with banner and shield charged with arms of France.
f. 16v: Full-page picture of an angel in white with gold wings holding a very long scroll with a text beginning Celui qui a trouvé une bonne femme a trouvé un grand bien.
f. 17r: Half-page miniature, a copy of Raphael’s painting of the Marriage of Mary and Joseph.
f. 18r: In the outer and lower borders 5 vignettes with pictures of buildings and churches.
f. 18v: Façade of the cathedral at Rheims; Joan of Arc on a horse, at the head of a procession a figure leads Charles VII on horseback to be welcomed by a group of women.
f. 22r: In outer margin a vignette, possibly Christ taking leave of Mary and Joseph.
f. 23v: Standing Virgin praying
f. 24r: Border in the form of curtains, pulled back to reveal David playing the harp.
f. 29v: In outer margin, vignette featuring St Michael; in lower margin a vignette featuring a sword and a crown with a scroll inscribed Pour Dieu, ma patrie, mon droit.
f. 30r: In outer margin a vignette featuring the Visitation
f.32v In outer margin, two panels in blue and white (waterfall and landscape with cows)
f. 34v: Panel in outer margin showing the Presentation of Christ at the Temple and vignette in the lower margin with Chambord Castle.
f. 35r: In outer margin, angel holding a retable showing the Last Supper.
f. 36v In the lower border a vignette with Last Supper, copied from Leonardo da Vinci’s fresco in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan.
f. 37v: In upper margin, miniature of Henri IV; in outer margin three panels: crossed white flags of the Bourbon with fleur-de-lys and the letter H (for Henri); a cathedral (Chartres) with a crowd and a scroll inscribed 15 février 1594; a suit of armour and a scroll inscribed Ralliez-vous à mon panache blanc. In lower margin, panel: miniature of the coronation of Henry IV, with bishops and nobles and a scroll inscribed Sacre de Henri IV 17 février 1594.
f. 42r: “Ghent-Bruges vignette border with David in Penitence, kneeling in a garden overlooking a moat in front of a castle, copied from an early 16th-century Flemish manuscript of the).
f. 42v: In outer margin, a vignette with the Pope above a scroll Urbi et Orbi.
f. 46r: In outer margin a medallion with St Francis embracing St Dominic; in lower margin, three figures singing from a scroll of music.
f. 49r: In upper margin, a medallion with a bust portrait of Joan of Arc, between crossed white flags.
f. 50r: In the upper margin a town-crier and the words Oyez oyez; in the outer and lower margins, three vignettes featuring the cathedrals Rouen, Amiens, Beauvais.
f. 51r: In outer margin one quatrefoil vignette featuring, seated on a lily, a female saint holding an anchor; in lower margin another quatrefoil vignette picturing the Baptism of the comte de Chambord, and a scroll inscribed Baptême de Mer le duc de Bordeaux, i.e. the Comte de Chambord.
Initials:
Copies of 14th-to 16th-century initials of all kinds. A few are historiated:
f. 8v: Canon of the Mass with initial N enclosing a bust of a 19th-century priest, in black with a black skull cap.
f. 12v: Communion withinitial Q enclosing a chalice and host worshipped by two angels.
f. 37r: Initial E enclosing an enthroned king with crown and regalia.

Binding:
1844, Paris, by Léon Gruel, red velvet over boards; furniture of rich gilt corner-pieces, centrepieces and end-pieces at top and bottom of the spine, the centrepieces inscribed FIDES and SPES; two clasps hinged on upper cover; doublure of yellow textile; stamp GRUEL RELIEUR. Kept in purpose-made box of black morocco, with blind-tooled fillet frame and gold-tooled fleur-de-lys in the corners.
Bookmark: suspended from a gilt crown, three white ribbons, to which are attached a dove, an anchor and a small cross with red enamel.