There are several extant 15th- and 16th-century copies of the document, plus a colour-illuminated iteration of 1542. All the known, extant copies are derived, either directly or indirectly, from "Codex Spirensis", a codex known to have existed in the library of the Chapter of Speyer Cathedral in 1542, but which was lost before 1672 and has not been rediscovered. The "Codex Spirensis" was a collection of documents, of which the "Notitia" was the final and largest document, occupying 164 pages, that brought together several previous documents of which one was of the 9th century. The heraldry in illuminated manuscript copies of the "Notitia" is thought to copy or imitate only that illustrated in the lost "Codex Spirensis".