The Annunciation survives in damaged form as a fragmentary lyric of seven closing lines. Another fragment on the same subject (Luke 1:28–38), but in a wholly different meter, appears later in Jesus 29: Song of the Annunciation (art. 20) immediately follows Love Rune (art. 19), to which it is thematically connected. The separate fragments share a rhyme-sound: sende/wende/hende (Song, lines 1–3); wende/sende/hende/ende (The Annunciation, lines 4–7).

The seven lines of The Annunciation have been printed by previous editors as the end of Song of the Annunication, but there is no codicological or metrical possibility that they are parts of the same poem. In 1954, Celia Sisam offered a strained codicological argument (“The Broken Leaf,” pp. 337–40). The idea that the two fragments belong to the same work was accepted by Betty Hill in 1975 (Hill-Addenda, p. 101), but not mentioned in her later work (Hill-Part2). Unlike the quasi-tail-rhyme stanzas of Song, The Annunciation is composed in long-line monorhyming quatrains, a meter identical to that of three other poems in Jesus 29: Weal, Doomsday, and Death (arts. 6, 13, 14).

[Fol. 181r. NIMEV 877 (combined with art. 20). DIMEV 1467 (combined with art. 20). Quire: 4. Meter: 7 surviving septenary lines in 4-line stanzas, rhyming aaaa7. Layout: Long lines with medial and end punctuation. Editions (combined with art. 20): Morris, p. 100; Saupe, pp. 44–45, 172–73. Other MSS: None.]