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The initial word “Lord” (אדון) for the Yozer of the first day of Shavuot, is written within a filigree panel on the upper part of the page, occupying the text width. The large display letters are in burnished gold, now partially scratched, and outlined with red ink. Their legs are decorated with small medallions.

The background of the panel is divided in two vertical sections, both filled with filigree scrolls in red and violet pen-work, respectively. A red and blue border, decorated with bold circles and thin pen-work tendrils, frames the panel as well as all the text space. Each corner of this border is decorated with one medallion enclosing a hybrid, a trefoil, or a floral motif, executed in spared-ground technique on a red and blue background, some of them framed with geometrical patterns in red pen-work. On top of the two upper medallions, a red bird in profile with a crest, on the right, and a violet human grotesque, protruding a leafy tongue, on the left, are depicted in pen-work. Two drop-shaped red and violet medallions extend from the two lower medallions, each enclosing a dragon in spare-ground technique on a pen-work ground.