The manuscript has been formed from several separate accessions:

folios 1-2, 32-39, bought, Christie's, 19 October 1953, lot 44; folios 3-4, bought, Sotheby's, 29 October 1962, lot 195; folio 5, bought, Sotheby’s, 30 May 1961, lot 490; folios 6-7, bought, Sotheby’s, 28 May 1956, lot 1471; folios 8-9, bought, Sotheby’s, 31 July 1962, lots 588; folios 10-11, 30-31, bought, Sotheby’s, 24 February 1959, lot 353; folios 12-20, 21-29, 44, 63, 64-67, 73-74, 107-108, bought, Sotheby’s, 29 May 1961, lot 261; folio 40, bought, 1959, Maggs Brothers Limited, London; folio 41-43, bought, 1959, Maggs Brothers Limited, London; folio 45, bought, Sotheby’s, 22 July 1958, lot 399; folios 46-49, bought, Sotheby’s, 6 July 1953, lot 238; folio 50, bought, Christie’s, 22 June 1969, lot 146; folios 51-54, bought, Sotheby’s, 30 May 1961, lot 492; folios 55-60, bought, Sotheby’s, 29-30 May 1961, lot 260; folios 61-62, bought, Sotheby’s, 28 July 1955, lot 495; folios 64-67, bought, Sotheby’s, 11 December 1957, lot 680; folios 68-69, bought, Sotheby’s, 28 July 1955, lot 511; folio 70, bought, Sotheby’s, 31 July 1962, lot 589; folios 71-72, 77-78, 105-106, bought, 1954, Maggs Brothers Limited, London; folios 75-76, bought, 1956, C & I K Fletcher Limited, London; folios 79-80, bought, 1959, Ifan Fletcher, London; folios 81-82, bought, Hodgson’s, 20 November 1959, lot 566; folios 83-84, 87-89, bought, Christie’s, 30 June 1959, lot 244; folios 85-86, bought, Sotheby’s, 11 December 1957, lot 655; folios 90-101, bought, 1959, Maggs Brothers Limited, London; folios 102-104, bought, 1957, R G Stewart Wallace, Annan, Dumfriesshire; folio 109, bought, Morrison McChlery and Company, 9 April 1959, lot 7.