A note dated 1637 has been added to f. [d] recto: ‘Ετι απο Αδαμ εος Χριστου 5508 και απο Χριστου εος τι σιμερο 163⟨7⟩ τα παντα ολα 7145’. There are various pen-trials in the margins.

A large sigma telikon has been placed in the upper margin preceding the beginning of the text on f. i recto; a few letters were apparently written within this, but they have been erased. (This recurs on Part III, ff. 3r, 28r and 47r.)

A former owner, the priest Chariton, has placed his stamp, with the inscription ‘Παπα Χαριτο’ on various folios (e.g. ff. [d] recto, v recto).

There are notes in Latin on the chronicles of Meletios and Theodosios of Melitene on f. [d] recto, probably by Thomas or Roger Gale, and a note in Greek on f. xvi verso.

As part of the original process of production, Hand B has added marginal notes indicating content in red ink.

There are pen-trials and occasional marginal annotations in Greek by a variety of different hands (e.g. ff. 4v, 20r, 46v, 84r) and notes in Latin and Greek regarding content (e.g. f. 1r).

As in Part I, the priest Chariton, has placed his stamp on various folios (e.g. ff. 1r, 76r).

As on f. i recto, a large sigma telikon has been placed in the upper margins preceding the beginning of texts on ff. 3r, 28r and 47r, with a number of letters within it erased.

There are occasional marginal annotations in Greek in various hands (e.g. ff. 9r, 17r-19r, 30v, 33v).

There are also marginal annotations in Latin and Greek, in brown ink. These include a note on f. 14r, identifying the adjacent passage as the source of an excerpt in the Souda. This forms the greater part of the passage copied from the Souda inserted on f. 59v. Another excerpt in the Souda is identified on f. 28r, and Georgios Kedrenos cited on f. 28v. The same hand has added a long note on f. 66r, proposing Hippolytos of Thebes as the author of the text of Pseudo-Methodios. Another Latin note has been added here by a different hand citing the work of one Radenus regarding this chronicle. The authors of letters and omissions from this copy are noted on ff. 42v-45r. Other Latin marginal notes regarding content, in red ink and pencil, appear on f. 28r-28v and, citing Photios, on f. 37v.

Various brief notes in Greek have been written on the otherwise blank ff. 2v, 60r-60v, 66v and 67v-69v. These include numerous repetitions of the same sentence by different hands, with inaccurate and variable spelling and orthography: ‘Τὴν πῶλην την στεροπυργὼν ἀν μὶ Θεὸς φήλαξη εἰς ματην εκόπὴσσαν ὀ του τηχόφηλαξ’ (quoted here from f. 2v), a variation on the text of Psalm 126:1: ‘Ἐὰν μὴ κύριος οἰκοδομήσῃ οἶκον, εἰς μάτην ἐκοπίασαν οἱ οἰκοδομοῦντες αὐτόν· ἐὰν μὴ κύριος φυλάξῃ πόλιν, εἰς μάτην ἠγρύπνησεν ὁ φυλάσσων’, very similar to the form quoted in Constantine Manasses, Breviarum Chronicum, ed. O. Lampsides (Athens 1996), CFHB 36.1, lines 4079-4080: ‘πόλιν τὴν στερρόπυργον ἂν μὴ Θεὸς φυλάξῃ, εἰς μάτην ἐκοπίασεν ὁ ταύτης τειχοφύλαξ’.

Another repeated note, on f. 68r, was apparently added by Ploumo, wife of kyr Kaloioannes: ‘Δι'αὐτῆς τῆς καλῆς ἠμῶν ὀμολογία⟨ς⟩ δηλο πιὦ εγῶ Πλοῦμο γυνὴ τοῦ κυροῦ Καλοιωάννου’.

Another is a repeated note in cryptographic characters on f. 69v.

These notes also include, on f. 67v, a note of acquisition from Stephanes Kertekos (Kretikos?) by Georgilas Donos: ‘εγω Γεοργηλας το Δονὸν επηρα τον χρονογραφο απου το Στεφανην το Κηρτηκο’. The date 1637 appears above this note, but it is unclear whether the two are related. (The note is in a different hand from the one giving the date 1637 on f. [d] recto.)

A note in English on f. 67v attributes the composition or copying of this book to a bishop named Theophylact: ‘This booke was writt by Theophilact a Greeke father of Constantinople who was a bishopp. Monte Sancto Oro. where hee writt this booke and diied’.