The diplomatic editions allow readers convenient access to its textual history. The new edition follows the editorial methods established by the series: the text of the MS is reproduced as it stands, without emendations.

This edition contains an introduction by Dom Gerard Sitwell and a preface by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Bibliography of prose works offering unique evidence for the nature of women's religious experience in medieval England, with scholarly introduction.

The 13th century 'Ancrene Wisse' is a guide for female recluses.