The Deeds did not circulate widely. It survives in two manuscripts. In Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 4931, it takes up eight columns across three folios (105d–107c). In both manuscripts, it is found alongside a longer text about Frederick, the Narration of the Oppression and Subjection of Lombardy, an account of the war with the Lombard League culminating in the battle of Legnano in 1176. This was written shortly after the treaty of Venice in 1177. Ronald Witt suggests that the two may have been written by the same person. Both these texts together were adapted several times by later Italian writers.
