The text found in the MS. is identical with that printed in the first edition. Also included is a letter (ff. v, vb) from Morris to W. T. Watts [-Dunton], concerning the printing of an extract from the poem as 'The first Foray of Aristomenes' in the…

Calligraphic manuscript on paper, two columns, written and designed by William Morris in an upright roman miniscule with flowery headings, ornaments and tailpieces.

Many renumberings and some corrections; chapters 89-90, ff. 17-20 and chapter 92, f. 27 are near calligraphic.