Several other manuscripts preserve the Life, or the Cypria summary, or both (but none of the rest of the Epic Cycle).

The manuscript is written in English, and preserves a traditional version of history believed during the period of its creation.

The same manuscript, like that of the Lambeth Homilies, also preserves a version of the Poema Morale.

As well, the various manuscripts, which usually differ only slightly, preserve widely divergent melodies of On soloit.

Hermann von Soden observed that the manuscript preserved the division in pages and lines of its uncial parent.

The first book was divided into sixty chapters, the second into forty-six, of which the manuscripts preserve only the first nine.

For it he commissioned a fine illuminated manuscript in an Italian style, which he himself preserved when he lost his throne.

The manuscript does not preserve the original text with any accuracy, but contains innovations, expansions and other deviations in almost every section.

More than sixty medieval manuscripts, complete and fragmentary, preserve the versio vulgata of the text.

Nonetheless, these manuscripts may preserve valid evidence of a date of foundation in the 11th century.