Copied by one scribe who wrote a Northern gothica textualis currens. This is the same scribe who also copied another Froissart manuscript, now
Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. lat. 869. There are a numbere of differences in the execution of the writing, which may give the impression that the manuscript was copied by two scribes, but these differences probably indicate that some sections were copied at a different time and/or at a higher speed. The less carefully executed sections are written using darker ink with a pen with a slightly broader nib, resulting in a slightly larger modulus. The margins are narrower. Both the writing and the margins are often not entirely parallel to the edge of the page. In the 'Rome' manuscript no initials were executed, but the scribe left small cursive guide letters and blanks for the two-line initials to be added. The same pattern is found in this manuscript, but in the less carefully copied sections the initials have often been executed as plain initials in red ink, in particular on fol. 2r-36v, 38r-[45bis] v, [47bis] r-55v and 57r-100r.