Parchment.
Paginated 1-127 in black ink on every second page.
Blank space for initials.
A lacuna taking up two leaves is found between pp. 2-3, another two leaves are missing between pp. 4-5; between pp. 72-73 eight leaves are missing.
After the end of Konungs skuggsjá another hand has added stanzas to the following three pages; pp. 3-16 has some marginal notes. In the margins of pp. 10-16, supplementary text is added to the original text (Wonders of Ireland).
BD standard binding with leather spine and corners; the boards are covered in olive/brown cloth from 1966: 223 mm x 179 mm x 53 mm
On a slip pasted to the front of the manuscript, Árni Magnússon wrote: Speculum Regale Aftan vid eru | Mariuviſur (þær hefi eg afskrifadar — i AM. 711 b 4to ). | Heims oſomi, byriaſt: Morg er mannzins pina. | Bokin er komin til min fra Huſtru Gudride Giſladottur. Var innsaumud i andstygdar ledr plumpt og greylega umvendad
A similar account is found in AM 435 a 4to, bl. 150v-151r.