[1] The manuscript contains in its first historiated initial two characters, a knight and a lady kneeling in prayer before the Trinity and bearing the arms of two sponsors of the manuscript: Edward, Prince of Wales and future Edward I of England, and his wife, Eleanor of Castile.

The work was carried out in successive stages between 1254, the date of their marriage, and 1272, when the prince acceded to the throne.

It was acquired the same year by Francis Douce, who left his collection to the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford on his death in 1834.

1–12) contains an incomplete text of the Book of Revelation in Old French, including anonymous comments without miniatures and a large historiated initial at the beginning.

It may have been made in the same workshop as the manuscript of the Apocalypse of the Bibliothèque nationale de France MS Lat.