Handmade book of plain paper, no cover; approx. 10 × 16.3 cm; 16 unnumbered leaves; paper watermarked 1825.
	The booklet was later enclosed in a paper cover that, like the inside covers of the red books, has pasted on it a clipping from Poems (1891) describing MS II, along with brief remarks, possibly in the hand of Alexander Wedderburn. As remarked by this annotator, the cover formed no part of the original booklet.

Hand
	Script is pencil and ink longhand, varying in control from neat to a wild scrawl; nowhere does Ruskin use his fancy print or copperplate hands.