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The manuscript’s visual representation describes a specific segment of the Sun-god Re’s nocturnal journey through the last hours of the night. The treatise’s visual model does not resemble the prototype established that decorates the 18th Dynasty royal burial chambers in the Valley of the Kings, as the scribe only focuses on the top register of the Eleventh Hour. The manuscript also presents a significant fracture; therefore, some deities are missing from these episodes (deities 760-767 in the Eleventh Hour and deity 883 in the Twelfth Hour). From the manuscript’s left to right-hand side, the scribe illustrates the snake of time Sd-wnw.t (He who takes away the hours) in red ink with the deity D.t (Time) above its coils: the former represents the flowing concept of time (nHH) and the latter its static aspect (D.t). In the following scene, three deities guard and protect the Sun-god’s mysteries; unfortunately, this episode is not well preserved and we only see three of the twelve deities. In the last scene, the Sun-god’s renewed form, a beetle (here missing), exits the Netherworld by travelling through the air-god Shu’s outstretched arms to be reborn as the sun disk at dawn. On the manuscript’s right-hand side, the etiquette shows the deceased, Mutregh, praising Osiris and offering him funerary supplies.