The manuscript is written in black ink, with red for the title, numbers and initials, and in a Muscovite skoropis’ hand.

Списокь стор ʼroвoro ӳcтaвa

The manuscript begins: ·ã·, Ha двинѣ ẏ̑ аханrecкoro ropo втамо, жнѣ Ϭытна на яман'ке

The manuscript ends: и о напрасноrо ẏ̑божестьа свойхъ, люде хранять..

There is a colophon on folio 72: и̓ по ẏ̑ка великоrо rдря й по помѣте,

боя̑рина а̇̑ѳонасъя лаврентьė̑вича, а̇̑рдина нащокина й по челобитью,

rалан ʼцовъ и̓ а̓мбᴕрцовъ торrовыxъ и̓но, зем'цовъ, списокъ со всеrо

тор'rова ẏ̑става впре, для тор'rовые крѢпости и̓ для поли, н' ноrо вѢдома

со всѢxъ стате' данъ, сроспискою во ·ρ͂оѕ [1668] rодᴕ а̇̑пеля въ д̃ɪ,

кислѢ.

Folio 72 verso is blank.

The paper contains watermarks of the Seven Provinces, very close if not identical to Churchill 110 (1654). The flyleaves and additional leaves have a watermark of the arms of England with crown and Garter, initials CJL beneath, c? marks the royal cipher GR, very similar to Churchill 214 (1733) or Heawood 445 impossibly dated 1598; cf. Heawood 441 (1731).

It appears from the words of folio iii verso that the purpose of the interleaving may have been to write a parallel translation (which never got beyond the title and the number of the first article!).