The contents are:

1.

54 songs and instrumental pieces (folios 1-25 verso), of which the following have been identified:

`My love bound me`, Robert Jones, ‘Second Book of Songs’, 1601 (folio 4 verso);

`Do not O do not praise`, Robert Jones, ‘Ultimum Vale’, 1608 (folio 5);

`There is none, O none but you`, Thomas Campion, ‘Second Book of Airs’, 1610 (folio 6);

`Vaine men whose follies`, Thomas Campion, ‘Second Book of Airs’, 1610 (folio 7);

`Fairwele deare Love`, Robert Jones, ‘First Book of Songs’, 1600 (folio 8);

`Young and simple though I am`, Thomas Campion, ‘Fourth Book of Airs’, 1617 (folio 8 verso);

`One year begins`, words by Lady Anne Ker (folio 9);

‘Yone twinkling starrs’, words by Sir Henry Wotton (folio 10);

`What is it all that men possess`, Thomas Campion, ‘Third Book of Airs’, 1617 (folio 10 verso);

`Why presumes thy prid`, Thomas Campion, ‘Third Book of Airs’, 1617 (folio 11);

`All my witts hath will in wrapped`, John Bartlet, 1606 (folio 13);

`If love Loves truth`, Thomas Campion, ‘Third Book of Airs’, 1617 (folio 14);

‘How can that tree`, words by Thomas Baron Vaux (folio 14 verso);

`Even death behold I breathe`, words by Alexander Montgomerie (folio 16 verso);

`Thou wilt not goe`, words by Robert Aytoun (folio 17);

`Sall I wrastling in despair`, words by George Wither (folio 17 verso);

`It was a lover and his lass`, Thomas Morley, ‘Airs to the Lute’, 1600, words by Shakespeare (folio 18);

‘Wnquyet thoughts`, John Dowland, ‘First Book of Songs or Ayres’, 1597 (folio 19);

`When sall my sorrowful sighting slaicke`, Thomas Tallis (folio 20);

Pieces by John Black (folios 20 verso, 23);

`About the banks of helecone`, Andro Blackhall (folios 20 verso, 24 verso);

`Now I sie thy Lookes`, Thomas Ford, ‘Book of Songs’, 1607, words by Thomas Lodge (folio 21);

Pavan by James Lauder (folio 24);

`Content desyre`, Claude de Sermisy (folio 25);

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A table of contents, notes of obliterated lines, and a copy of the ballad `Thomas o` Winesberry`, all in the hand of John Leyden (folios 26-30 verso).

3.

Seventeen proper psalm tunes, ten common tunes, church part only (all in the Psalter of 1615), and fourteen common tunes in four parts, as in the Psalter of 1615 but with some variations in the harmony, and with the addition of `Newtoune` and `Elgin` (folios 32-42 verso).