E. Whinfield bought the ms from Bernhard Quaritch in 1879 who wrote to him referring to the origin of the ms as having been "siezed in the Imperial Palace at Delhi when the town was ravaged after the mutiny" (last flyleaf verso). FA

FA inspected the ms 21 October 2010 and took the pictures in the SCRR (Special Collections Reading Room) of the Science Library of the Bodleian.

It is an enormous in size codex, rebound in European fashion using Oriental motives. Luxurious materials: front covers deeply stamped with elaborate ornament in in light and dark green, biege and gold over bright red leather. Inside covers are covered with dark green moire silk. The name of the binder is mentioned inside the back cover: H. Stamper.

Flyleaf I contains a note by Bernard Quaritch to Whinfield re. the provenance of the manuscript, which is a fragment of his letter; Whinfield obviously cut this fragment out and attached it for reference.

Text seems to be normative, no prose introduction.