The exact origin of this manuscript is unclear. Mann has suggested that it is written in a Germanic or Flemish gothic bookhand, and Kristeller has suggested a 'northern hand' for the work. The text is in a minuscule bookhand and is the work of one scribe. It has been written in double columns with 39 lines to a page.

This manuscript contains a complete copy of Petrarch's 'De remediis utriusque fortune'. There are two indices before the work itself; one numerical and one alphabetical by subject matter. The alphabetical index is missing entries for A-H.

The contents are as follows:

Index of dialogues, imperfect. Folios 1r-4r.

Folio 4v is blank, but has been lined and ruled.

Petrarch, 'De remediis utriusque fortune'. Folios 5r-215v.

There is a colophon after the explicit on folio 215v which gives the date of writing as 1442. The initials 'B.M.' are also given, possibly those of the scribe.

Each folio has been lined and ruled, recto and verso, in red.

The books and chapters are numbered and rubricated in red.

On folios 5r and 100r there are large initials in red and blue, with red and purple filigree tracery prolonged into the margins.

The initials of chapters are plain red and smaller capitals in the text are elongated and occasionally ornamented with penwork faces. Letters throughout are stroked with red. Some initials have been cropped in the top margin due to trimming.

There are a few marginal additions and corrections in a contemporary hand. There are occasional annotations in a 16th-century Scottish hand, including the following Scots verse on the verso side of folio 34: 'The schipman of his wyndes, the plechman of his ox, The weirman tells of his woundes, the schippert of his flox'.

A scribal foliation in red Arabic numerals is still partly visible in the top right hand corner of some folios, although most numerals have been cropped.