Paper.
There are catchwords on the versos of the leafs.
The leaves are damaged due to wear and humidity.
Previously the loose leaves were kept in a paper cover but in the 1880s the leaves were bound in a Kålund binding - a half-binding with black cloth spine and corners and the boards were covered in red paper in the pattern of combed marble. Size of old binding: 314 mm x 208 mm x ? mm. A note Árni Magnússon had written was found on the first flyleaf: Ur Alexandri Magni Sögu — fragment and Kålund noted the date 25. janúar 1886.
In nóvember 2004 the manuscript was rebound; the new spine and corners were replaced with a burgundy Winchester and the boards were covered in Cockerell marbled paper in a French curl pattern. The title and running title was done by the gilder, Jørgen Thorsen in Herlev. Size of binding: 310 mm x 218 mm x 12 mm.
On the paper cover where the loose leaves once were kept, Árni Magnússon wrote: Ur Alexandri Magni Sgu fragment feinged af Þöru Þorsteins dottur ä Setberge. Er ur þeirre gmlu Alexandri Magni Sgu [sem teken er ur Carminibus Galteri Insulensis], enn ei ur þeim nyu translationibus, sem ur Dnsku girdar eru.
According to Árni Magnússon's note (see above) he got the fragment from Þóra Þorsteinsdóttir of Setberg.
Catalogued 25. febrúar 2002 by EW-J.