Tokuhei YAMAGISHI believed that the text of the so-called "Sanjonishike manuscript," which had been conserved in the Imperial Household Archives as a shohon (a verified text), being closer to the text of books printed during the Edo period such as the Shusho Genji monogatari (Tale of Genji with Headnotes) and Kogetsusho (The Tale of Genji Moon on the Lake Commentary), was better than the text of this Oshima-bon manuscript.
なお、山岸徳平は、首書源氏物語や湖月抄などの江戸時代の版本の本文に近い本文を持つ宮内庁書陵部に証本として伝えられていたいわゆる『三条西家本』の本文のほうがこの大島本より良質の本文であるとした。