Folios have been indicated as this corresponds to the labelling of pages in the manuscript (as can be seen in the top right hand corner of f.11r); this is also consistent with descriptions of the manuscript in catalogue entries and other scholarship. The other folios contain around 38 lines of writing in a single column aligned to the left of the page; lineation for transcription and translation is complicated by the mise-en-page here. At first glance, the poem appears to be written in rhyming couplets, with the first line in French, the second in English (bar the final couplet of De Amico ad Amicam, where the English comes first). Beside each couplet, almost interlineally, is a single Latin word: the scribe has shown the connections through a kind of bracket connecting rhyming words. As the scribe has visually drawn attention to patterns of rhyme, this is reflected in the transcription by the addition of breaks to divide the poems into stanzas of six lines. The Latin, placed after each rhyming couplet, is indented to show its spatial separation in the manuscript.

General principles of transcription: All punctuation is editorial All abbreviations have been expanded; expansions are italicised and follow the orthography of the scribe Both r and s have only one form despite variation in the manuscript & is used to represent the tironian nota Rejected readings and linguistic points of interest appear in footnotes Insertions have been indicated by square brackets Scribal use of u/v and i/j has been retained. é has been used to indicate a tonic e Word division has been regularised