lower centre (in purple ink): St Mary's Dominican Convent / Kingstown.
This illuminating was done by a member of the Community 2nd Nov. 1905.'
On verso, centre (in pencil): 'On Good Friday 1935/ the word Code was inserted instead/ of Creed which was in the original copy'.
lower left: 'Please pray for the repose of the soul / of Ss. M. Concepta. [sic] who began this Illuminating/ on the 12th July 1905. [sic] and finished it, 2nd Nov. 05.'
lower right: (in pencil): 'Taken out of frame to try & get/ off marks of damp / Summer retreat 1917'.
lower right (in brown ink, faded): 'O Mary [three further lines, illegible]' and 'I place this Illuminating, which will be [illegible] / the Dublin exhibition[sic], May 1907, [illegible] / from fire & all danger there, and send it back / Safe [illegible] for the greater honour & Glory / of God.' [all struck out in pencil] and, pencil, 'Was never sent'.