Little is known about the provenance of this manuscript, although the following clues may be found within the volume: On front pastedown, a paper bookplate stating that the manuscript was given by Monsieur Couvreu to the Bibliothèque cantonale. At the top of 1r, written in ink in an early hand: 1280. At the bottom of 1r, a black ink stamp of BIBLIOT. ACADEM. LAUSAN with the motto LIBERTE ET PATRIE. The same stamp also at 123v and probably on verso of rear flyleaf, although this latter stamp now mostly faded away. At the bottom of 62r, the name Mons. Jeh. de S. Dider. In his description, Langlois dates the following inscription, found on the final flyleaf, to the 15th century: Gest roman est Simon Gameru, qui le trovra sy le ly aporge
. The inscription, which runs perpendicular to the book and is on the extreme right edge of the leaf, is now faded and soiled.
In addition to these, a later user has introduced a numbering system that seems to map this manuscript to the folios of another manuscript and to divide the text into chapters. For example, the left column on 20r has been numbered 34 and the right column 35, while on the same leaf, the reader has noted the switch from Guillaume de Lorris to Jean de Meun and placed the number 21 in the margin, indicating that it is chapter 21. (The notations above the columns sometimes align with Lecoy’s keying of his edition to [Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 1573], as they roughly do here with fols. 34 and 35, but are not an exact match.)