Main text in black ink, capitals touched in yellow, rubrics in red.

(f. 1ra): Foliate initial ‘U’ over 7 lines (extending in the margin). The letter is placed in a blue frame with gold edges, the enclosed space is gilded and filled with a curled foliate shape with two leaves and a biting animal's head. Part of the frame or letter extends along the inner margin and half of the bottom margin. Main colours pink, blue, and red. The initial is followed by a smaller capital penwork ‘N’ over 2 lines in black and touched in yellow;

(ff. 1rb–273rb): plain initials over 2-3 lines in blue or red with red, blue and/or green flourishing, which sometimes extend along the entire margin, decorated by so called frog eggs. The initial is followed by a capital touched in yellow, occasionally these capitals include some penwork details, e.g. (f. 32va).

Late medieval binding. Brown leather over wooden boards. 5 pairs of raised bands and 2 endbands. RCO, top of page, half of a medieval parchment label with nails in it, text in black ink: ‘legenda’. Spine, ink on paper label: ‘N:o 21. Jac. Jannensis Legenda aurea Sanctorum’; stamped in gold: ‘A 158’; ink on paper label:‘ e. 30. 6. 13’.

The endleaves consist of 2 bifolia from Petrus Comestor’s Historia scholastica. These fragments seem to be written by the same or a similar hand as the main text