Parchment medium to heavy in weight, well selected and prepared; lower edges are grimed by use, although the edges are in better condition, with fewer mends as well, than in the abbess' volumes (W.759 and W.760); front flyleaves and back flyleaves are of modern parchment, after 1904; added title page; modern table of contents laid in; cropped close to decoration
Quire 1: 10, with folio before fol. 1 cancelled; tipped in singletons: unnumbered title page, 2, 5 (fols. 1-9); Quire 2: 8 (fols. 10-17); Quire 3: 8, with fifth to eighth folios cancelled after fol. 20 (fols. 18-21); Quire 4: 8, with first, second, and third folios cancelled (fols. 22-26); Quire 5: 8 (fols. 27-34); Quire 6: 8 (fols. 35-42); Quire 7: 8, with first and third folios cancelled (fols. 43-48); Quire 8: 8, with third, fourth, fifth, seventh, and eighth folios cancelled (fols. 49-51); Quire 9: 8, with first and third folios cancelled (fols. 52-57); Quire 10: 8, with third folio cancelled (fols. 58-64); Quire 11: 8, with third folio cancelled (fols. 65-71); Quire 12: 8, with first and sixth folios cancelled (fols. 72-77); Quire 13: 8, with eighth folio cancelled (fols. 78-84); Quire 14: 8 (fols. 85-92); Quire 15: 8, with second folio cancelled (fols. 93-99); Quire 16: 8, with first, fifth, and sixth folios cancelled (fols. 100-104); Quire 17: 8, with sixth folio cancelled (fols. 105-111); Quire 18: 8, with seventh folio cancelled, first folio tipped in after fol. 111 (fols. 112-118); Quire 19: 8, with third and fourth folios cancelled (fols. 119-124); Quire of 10 missing; Quire 20: 8 (fols. 125-132); Quire 21: 8, with first folio tipped in after fol. 132 (fols. 133-140); Quire 22: 8 (fols. 141-148); Quire 23: 8, with first folio tipped in after fol. 148 (fols. 149-156); Quire 24: 8 (fols. 157-164); Quire 25: 8 (fols. 165-172); Quire 26: 8 (fols. 173-180); Quire 27: 8, with sixth folio tipped in after fol. 185 (fols. 181-188); Quire 28: 8 (fols. 189-196); Quire 29: 8 (fols. 197-204); Quire 30: 8 (fols. 205-213); Quire 31: 8 (fols. 213-220); Quire 32: 8, with fourth, sixth, and eighth folios cancelled (fols. 221-225); Quire 33: 8 (fols. 226-233); Quire 34: 8, with fourth folios cancelled (fols. 234-240); Quire 35: 8, with second and sixth folios cancelled (fols. 241-246); Quire 36: 8, composite: sewing between second and third folios, fols. 248-249 (fols. 254); Quire 37: 8, with fifth folio cancelled (fols. 255-261); Quire 38: 8, with sixth, seventh, and eighth folios cancelled (fols. 262-266); Quire 39: 8, with first, second, third, and fourth folios cancelled (fols. 267-270)