MS 176 is a short volume with only a small abount of text combined with large, half-page illustrations. It contains sections VI-XXI of Peter of Eboli's thirty-five sectional didactic poem on the medicinal thermal baths in the region of Campania. Peter wrote his poem on bathing in the last years of the 12th century, and dedicated it to the emperor, probably the Holy Roman Emperor at the time, Henry VI.

The text begins with the sixth section of Peter of Eboli's text, on f. 1r: Balneolum. Inter aquas pelagi prope litus sub pede rupis. MS 176 ends on f. 8v with the 22nd section: Pugillus. Cum maris unda vacat tanti vacat unda pugillus.

The hand is good Italian Gothic with plain red capitals.

There are illustrations occupying the lower half of each page, probably inserted at a late date. They are very roughly drawn and crudely coloured, and in some cases unfinished. The landscape where it exists is of Italian scenery, but always crude and unfinished.