The manuscript was known only by the family for decades before finally being published in 2011.

The manuscript became known for the scholars in the half of the 18th century.

Five manuscripts are known to exist, the earliest being 15th century.

The original manuscript is not known, most likely it perished.

It was clearly a popular work, with fifty-one manuscripts known.

Neither of these books appears to have been published, nor is any manuscript known to be extant.

More than forty manuscripts of the General estoria are known.

No complete manuscript of the Arabic original is known.

Of the 49 manuscripts known from his published prolegomena on them, only three survived.

The manuscript was known to contain 368 folios in the 15th and 16th centuries.