The volume contains:

(i) 72 numbered leaves from a disbound 16th-century armorial of the Scottish nobility, measuring ca. 27 x 20 cm. Containing the arms of the Scottish kings (nos 1-18) and coats of arms of the Scottish nobility (19-74). The entry for Mary, Queen of Scots (17) is dated 1570; that for Darnley, Earl of Lennox (23) is dated 1581. Underneath the Lindsay of Crawford arms (26) a sheet is tipped in containing three wax signets with impressions of the Earl of Crawford's monogram, coat of arms and crest, annotated in a 17th-century hand.

The coats of arms are very finely drawn and coloured in. The legends underneath combine features of both Scots and English orthography and may be the work of an English scribe copying information from a Scottish armorial. One leaf containing an index, contemporary with the drawings, concludes this part.

(ii) Some notes and uncoloured pen drawings of coats of arms, cut out in rectangular shape from one or more English heraldic notebooks of the 17th-century. Some of these are pasted onto the interleaving paper opposite nos. 71 and 74, while five others are tipped or pasted in between before the beginning of (iii).

(iii) 33 unnumbered leaves of an unfinished armorial, undated but on paper dated ca. 1645 ("Strasbourg Lily" watermark). Containing the arms of Scottish peers, with the shield and supporters usually finished. The crest is sometimes missing and the ribbon designed to carry the motto is usually blank, although a motto is sometimes written into it in pencil in capitals. There is no calligraphic label of the bearers' names, but about half the names are recorded in ink in a 17th-century hand in the left-hand top corner, while others are identified in 18th-century pencil notes. A few arms remain unidentified in the manuscript.

The leaves, which measure ca. 22 x 19 cm, may have been preserved in an unbound state before being bound into the present volume. Three different runs of pencil pagination/foliation, two of them written sideways on the right-hand margin, suggest that they were re-housed several times and that they were once part of a larger set of sheets. There is also some evidence of cropping of the top edge, where some early pencil notes, as well as the tip of the sword of the Mackay crest, were cut off. The sword tip was preserved between the leaves as a small paper square, indicating a loss through cropping of ca. 2 cm at the top.