The manuscript consists of a very small quire bound in parchment. The size suggests it was a personal notebook, albeit one written with considerable care and skill. The notes on fols. 1–12 have been separately numbered in blue and are referred to in the index by both folia number (in red) and this marking number (in blue). The first leaf containing unnumbered annalistic notes in Latin is not included in the index. These Latin notes were probably added later on, although they are written by the same hand as the rest of the text. The final note on fol. is added by another hand and left unnumbered.

A possible is provided by the last annal, for November . But this note is in a different hand than the rest of the manuscript. Since one note still mentions as king, the work was probably written before his deposition in the autumn of . The table on the inner back cover suggests that the manuscript was written in at the latest. Since the last note concerning is by another hand, the manuscript may indeed have been written already in . Several notes concern and . It seems likely that the manuscript was written in that area.