diff --git a/src/components/ContentNode.vue b/src/components/ContentNode.vue
index 6db878f2f..085eaf306 100644
--- a/src/components/ContentNode.vue
+++ b/src/components/ContentNode.vue
@@ -236,7 +236,11 @@ function renderNode(createElement, references) {
         node.text
       ));
     case BlockType.orderedList:
-      return createElement('ol', {}, (
+      return createElement('ol', {
+        attrs: {
+          start: node.start,
+        },
+      }, (
         renderListItems(node.items)
       ));
     case BlockType.paragraph:
diff --git a/tests/unit/components/ContentNode.spec.js b/tests/unit/components/ContentNode.spec.js
index 423deb0bb..2ac5fc9dd 100644
--- a/tests/unit/components/ContentNode.spec.js
+++ b/tests/unit/components/ContentNode.spec.js
@@ -205,6 +205,51 @@ describe('ContentNode', () => {
 
       const list = wrapper.find('.content ol');
       expect(list.exists()).toBe(true);
+      expect(list.attributes('start')).toBeUndefined();
+
+      const items = list.findAll('li');
+      expect(items.length).toBe(2);
+      expect(items.at(0).find('p').text()).toBe('foo');
+      expect(items.at(1).find('p').text()).toBe('bar');
+    });
+
+    it('renders an <ol> with <li> items and a custom start index', () => {
+      const wrapper = mountWithItem({
+        type: 'orderedList',
+        start: 2,
+        items: [
+          {
+            content: [
+              {
+                type: 'paragraph',
+                inlineContent: [
+                  {
+                    type: 'text',
+                    text: 'foo',
+                  },
+                ],
+              },
+            ],
+          },
+          {
+            content: [
+              {
+                type: 'paragraph',
+                inlineContent: [
+                  {
+                    type: 'text',
+                    text: 'bar',
+                  },
+                ],
+              },
+            ],
+          },
+        ],
+      });
+
+      const list = wrapper.find('.content ol');
+      expect(list.exists()).toBe(true);
+      expect(list.attributes('start')).toBe('2');
 
       const items = list.findAll('li');
       expect(items.length).toBe(2);