 The Rawlinson manuscript formed part of a volume of fragments collected by Peter Le Neve (1661–1729), herald and antiquary, which found their way into Rawlinson's library.It consists of eight and a half folios, written in two columns in a fine late thirteenth-century hand.Two-thirds of the manuscript consists of a condensed epitome of the "Aeneid", unusually faithful to the original, but rearranged in chronologically consecutive order.