Folios 1-69 consist of harp tunes, chiefly Irish – "Carolan, Ó Cathain", etc., and appear to have been copied by Anna Jane in December 1816 (folio 69) from a manuscript of a Mr MacDonald (folios 14, 39, 43, 49). This may have been the Reverend Patrick MacDonald of Kilmore, compiler of ‘A collection of Highland vocal airs’. A tune at folio 52, “An Irish Girls lamentation for the loss of her Lover”, is described as “Taken by Macdonald from Mr. Murphy of Cambelton” – probably William MacMurchy, whose nephew James signs himself Murphy in 1808. The remainder consists mainly of Italian operatic airs and Anna Jane’s own compositions and adaptations, dated (folios 109-110) 1825.