The manuscript was written about 1500. Section xxii is an addition of the mid-sixteenth century.

The scribe gives his initials D (or David) de B in explicits on folios 14, 52, and 57, and writes his name out 'David Baldovy' on a stub after folio 202.

The contents are as follows: (i) 'Ad componendum cartas'. (Folio 1.)

(ii) 'Exceptiones contra cartam. (Folio 1 verso.)

(iii) 'Expositiones quorundam vocabulorum'. (Folio 2.)

(iv) 'Regiam Maiestatem' in 3 parts of 35, 109, and 66 chapters (those of part 2 are not numbered in the text; the table has 34 and 69 in parts 1 and 3) with table at the beginning. Between the table and the text are 11 verses beginning 'Hie trahit ad lumen antiqua statuta volumen' (‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, page xv). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 233-277. (Folio 2 verso.)

(v) 'Quoddam notabile de maritagio et cetera'. (Folio 52). Folios 57 verso-66 blank (also 3 torn out after folio 58 and 1 after folio 61).

(vi) 'Quoniam attachiamenta' in 63 chapters (79 in the table; probably unfinished) with table at the beginning. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 281-295. (Folio 67.) Folio 79 verso blank.

(vii) 'Leges quatuor burgorum' in 153 chapters (160 in the table) with table at the beginning. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 17-44. (Folio 80.)

(viii) 'De modo tenendi Iter Camerarie' with (incomplete) table at the beginning. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’ i pages 329-338. (Folio 100.)

Folio 106 verso blank.

(ix) 'Statuta glide'. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 89*-96*. (Folio 107.) Folios 111 verso-114 blank (also 10 torn out after folio 114).

(x) 'Leges forestarum' with table at the beginning. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 323-328. (Folio 115.)

(xi) 'Liber de judiciis'. (Folio 139.)

Folios 170-172 blank (also 1 torn out after folio 172).

(xii) 'Statuta Roberti Regis Scocie' in 28 chapters. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 107-114. (Folio 173.)

Folio 174 verso and 175 recto blank, presumably by mistake.

(xiii) 'Acta Roberti Tercii Regis tercii Scotorum' in 14 chapers. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 575-576; A A M Duncan, ‘Councils General, 1404-1423’, in ‘The Scottish historical review’, volume 35 (1956), pages 133-141. (Folio 178.)

(xiv) 'Modus tenendi placita justiciarie' in 6 chapters. (Folio 180 verso.)

Folios 181 verso-183 blank (also 1 torn out after folio 182).

(xv) 'Assisa Regis David' in 105 chapters (numbering intermittent). ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 3-13. (Folio 184.)

Folio 202 blank (also 1 torn out after folio 202).

(xvi) 'Statuta Malcolmi Makenneth'. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 345-348. (Folio 203.)

(xvii) 'De Constitucione Regis Willelmi' in 25 chapters. (Folio 205.)

(xviii) 'Statuta Regni Scocie et primo Regis Willelmi' in 10 chapters. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 49-62. (Folio 208 verso.)

(xix) 'Statuta Regis Alexandri' in 30 chapters, some in Scots. ‘Acts of the Parliament of Scotland’, i, pages 67-74. (Folio 210.)

(xx) 'The process off agane calling off a dome', in Scots, in 17 chapters. (Folio 214.)

Folio 217 verso blank (also 1 torn out after folio 217).

(xxi) 'Liber omne gadrum' in 138 chapters with table at the beginning. From chapter 113 is lost. (Folio 218.)

(xxii) Various laws. This section is in a later hand, possibly that of Alexander Arbuthnott. (Folio 242).

Folios 256 verso-259 blank (also 6 torn out after folio 259).

Paper (watermarks: gatherings 1-13, gothic P in two sizes, type Piccard iv III 1-145, Low Countries, later 15th century; gatherings 14-15, gothic P with flower above, type Piccard iv VII 131, and what follows, Low Countries, late 15th century; gatherings 16-22, unicorn, similar to Piccard x 2211, Lüttich, 1494; gatherings 23-24, pot, not in Briquet).

The lower pastedown is from a work on penance, 15th century, vellum, 2 columns, more than 42 lines, more than 280 x 190 millimetres, size of column more than 220 x 80 millimetres.