The bearded king wearing a red pointed cap or turban (?) is seated on a throne placed on a pedestal with four steps. The figure of Ahasuerus is incomplete due to a large defect in the membrane; it was supplemented with a piece of paper, however, no attempt was made to re-create the decoration on it. A troop of soldiers carrying spears or halberds and dressed in full armor stands on the right of the king and two other soldiers stand on his left. The panel is surmounted by an armorial device of a black double-headed eagle holding a scepter in its right leg and a sword in the left one. On the eagle's chest, there is a shield with three bands, alternately in red and white that suggests that the coat of arms of Austria is depicted here.

The illustration joins two episodes; only one of them - the triumph of Mordecai - is directly based on the Book of Esther, while the other depicts the story told in T.B. Megillah 16. Mordecai with a short beard and clothed in the king's robes and turban, rides a horse being led by Haman (Es. 6:11) and he holds a saber pointing upwards, in his right hand. The biblical scene is supplemented by the representation of Haman's daughter who stands at the window of a building behind them and from a pitcher pours out bedpan slops on her father's head (she intended to humiliate Mordecai but instead of him, by mistake, she humiliated her father).