The volume contains a translation of Andrew Ramsay`s ‘Poemata Sacra’, folios 6-100; two versions of "The Description of the Creation", folios 6-25 and folios 59-68, both of which are undated, but the Preface to the translation (folio 55), bears the date 1782, and in the preface the author states that the translation `was made in the 82nd year of my age`.

The Scots poem ‘The Fortunate Shepherd or the Orphan’ (folio 105) was published in part in ‘The Scottish works of Alexander Ross’. The poem is incomplete in the present manuscript.

Parts of two different manuscripts have been inserted between folios 144 and 149 and folios 160 and 168.