 The Anthony Roll was originally a set of three separate vellum rolls . It exists today in the form of a bound volume containing the first and third rolls while the second roll is preserved in its original form . The three original rolls were made up out of a total of 17 individual membranes glued to the back of the next membrane . The membranes were of a width of 70 cm ( 27 ½ inches ) and a height varying from 79 to 96 cm ( 31 to 37 ¾ inches ) . After receiving the first and third rolls Pepys had his clerks cut the rolls up and bound in a single volume as a book , now known as Pepys <unk> . The transformation of the two rolls created a horizontal page structure , and some of the ornamentation that was cut in process was copied into the volume by hand . Pepys also inserted abstracts between the two rolls and a summarizing table that was not Anthony 's , but pre @-@ dated Pepys ' binding of the rolls . This radical treatment of the original document has damaged some of the illustrations and is today deprecated . The first three illustrations of the Henry Grace à Dieu , Mary Rose and Peter Pomegranate were all too large to fit on one page and were therefore converted to two @-@ page spreads . The resulting bend down the centre of the illustrations led to noticeable loss of detail . Despite this , there are no plans to attempt a recreation of the original structure of the first and third rolls . The second roll , British Library Additional MS <unk> , is still in its original condition with the exception of a written endorsement by Mary Fox from 1857 and some damage caused by an application of chemicals to reveal faded writing . 
