Consists of two distinct manuscripts: (a) folios 1-4, 11, containing chiefly a collection of mirabilia, and (b) folios 5-10, a medical remnant possibly of east Connacht origin (see folios 7 recto, 9 verso).

The manuscript is written in the following hands:

1. Text, folios 1-4, 11. A hand with curved strokes and distinctive ‘g’.

2. Text, folio 4 verso, column b, lines 36-42. Neat.

3. Text, folios 5-10. Strongly seriffed, slightly crabbed. Includes the only substantial decoration in the manuscript, an ornamental initial at folio 10 verso with some purple colouring.

4. Folios 5 recto, 6 recto. Similar to text-hand of Adv.MS.72.1.10.

5. Folio 7 recto. An emendator of Adv.MS.72.1.10, folios 2-5. Refers here to a member of the east Connacht medical family of Ó (Mac) Maol-Tuile.

6. Folios 5-10. Hand 8 of Adv.MS.72.1.27. Writes (folio 9 verso) near Balintubber, district of Corca Eachlann, County Roscommon, referring to Eachann.

7. Folio 8 verso. A good hand. Refers to Mull.

8. Folios 1 verso, 2 recto, 6 verso, 10 verso. Hand 5 of Adv.MS.72.1.8.

The manuscript contains the following marginalia. (The number of the hand is given in brackets). (i) ‘Comortus ris an . . . . . . .’ (hand 8). (Folio 1 verso.)

(ii) “Is truag leam nár leg olcas an phaiper dhamh an sgel beag diaachta-sa fu[arus] do sgribadh an ceathr . . . .” (hand 8). (Folio 2 recto.)

(iii) Scribbles, ‘amen dico vobis’ (hands 4, 6, etc.).

(iv) Scribbles, ‘labum anois’ (hand 6). (Folio 5 verso.)

(v) ‘Domine Deus virtutum’(hand 3?). ‘Dondcud’ (hand 4). (Folio 6 recto.)

(vi) “A Dhé is truag nach bfuil” (hand 8); ‘as olc lium nach gobhand’, etc. (hand 6). (Folio 6 verso.)

(vii) ‘A Dia moir as mor an gradh ata ag mnai sa baile seo do Dhondchadh Mac Maeltuile’ (hand 5). ‘Ta ma mbrogsa bristi’ (1 quatrain), etc. (hand 6). (Folio 7 recto.)

(viii) ‘Agaa’ (hand 6). (Folio 8 recto.)

(ix) ‘As olc in dub’ (hand 6). “Uch a Mhuire is mairg do feruibh Muile atá na mbeth[aidh] an mhéid mairfis dibh anocht” (hand 7). (Folio 8 verso.)

(x) ‘Labrum / A fad anocht a nOil Finn’ (visible under ultra violet light, hand 6). (Folio 9 recto.)

(xi) ‘As olc leam gan leabur da dhail o (?)Muirceach ⁊ a dul gu Baili in Tobair .i. in dara pardagail udha (?)andnugh ⁊ gun Eachann a Corc Eachlann’, etc. (hand 6). (Folio 9 verso.)

(xii) ‘A buil da galad sa grein’ (hand 3). “As olc leom a fat atann sa baili-si am comni (?)i da fagainn. Dar Diadh ní maith leom a legad” (hand 6). (Folio 10 recto.)

(xiii) ‘d . . .d inil(?) Domnaill’, etc. (hand 6). ‘Is maith do tairraing’ (hand 8). (Folio 10 verso.)

The contents (text) are as follows.

(i) Illegible. (Folio 1 recto.)

(ii) Anecdote about a woman. Beginning (acephalous) ‘maith arse ⁊ dena do cele do coimdidnean’. (Folio 1 verso, column a, line 1.)

(iii) Moling and the leper. Beginning ‘Fecht n-aen do Mling occ himteacht a seda conacca in clamh ndochraigh ndelbha ar a cind’. Cf. Stokes ‘The birth and life of St Moling’, page 282. (Folio 1 verso, column a, line 8.)

Mochuda and the devil. Beginning ‘Mocuda cona coimtinol .i. moirseisir ⁊ vii .xx. 7 vii ced’. Cf. Meyer ‘Mitteilungen aus irischen Handschriften’, page 32. (Folio 1 verso, column b, line 5.)

(iv) On boys who ate consecrated bread. Beginning ‘Feacht naen darbadar da leanab a Frangaibh a cumund .i. leanamh Cristaidhe ⁊ leanamh Iubhdaighi’. Cf. Stokes, ‘Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore’, page xx. (Folio 1 verso, column b, line 28.)

(v) Patrick’s revival of Lughaidh, son of Laoghaire, the origin of “Michael’s bit”. Beginning “Día romboi conblicht ⁊ easaenta itir Laegaire mac Neill ⁊ Patraigh mac Arplaind”. Cf. Stokes, ‘Tripartite life of Patrick’, volume 2, page 556; Adv.MS.72.1.5, folio 7 recto, column a, line 16. (Folio 2 recto, column a, line 24.)

(vi) On a man who swore falsely by Saint Ciarán. Beginning ‘Laithi da ndeachaidh Diarmaid mac Cerbaill do m(o)rad aenaig Taillten’. Cf. Fraser, ‘The miracle of Ciaran’s hand’, page 159. (Folio 2 recto, column b, line 38.)

(vii) Ship seen in the air at Clonmacnois. Beginning ‘La n-aen robatur muintear Cluana a n-oireachtus for urrlar na cille’. See Meyer (editor) ‘Stories from the Edinburgh MS.XXVI (Kilbride Collection, No 22)’, page 8. Cf. Dillon, ‘Laud Misc. 610’, page 73. (Folio 2 verso, column a, line 34.)

(xiii) Burial of a priest’s wife. Beginning ‘Sgel ann so ar mnai tsagairt ar fagail bais di’. See Meyer, (editor) ‘Stories from the Edinburgh MS.XXVI (Kilbride Collection, No 22)’, page 9. (Folio 2 verso, column b, line 8.)

(ix) White blackbirds. Beginning ‘Araile fearann fil isin doman tair, adhon in Aissia’. See Grosjean, ‘The white blackbirds of the eastern world’, page 120. (Folio 2 verso, column b, middle of the page.)

(x) Saint Bridget and a leper. Beginning “Clamh tainig co Brighidh do cuinghi bó fuirraidh”. Cf. Plummer, Fraser, Grosjean, ‘Vita Brigitae’, page 8. (Folio 2 verso, column b, bottom of the page.)

(xi) On a giantess. Beginning ‘Bean dorala gan fhas a cich a traigh mara an Eoruip’. See Meyer, ‘Stories from the Edinburgh MS.XXVI (Kilbride Collection, No 22)’, page 10. (Folio 3 recto, column a, line 1.)

(xii) On another giantess. Beginning ‘Bean ele dono rorala a mhuir an Albuin’. See Meyer, ‘Stories from the Edinburgh MS.XXVI (Kilbride Collection, No 22)’, page 10. (Folio 3 recto, column a, line 8.)

(xiii) On the camel. Beginning ‘Deismiracht beg on Bibla ann seo’. (Folio 3 recto, column a, line 14.)

(xvi) Sermon (‘comradh’) on Communion. Beginning ‘Adir an canoin condligind gach cristaidh corp Crist do catham uair gacha bliadhna’. Authorities cited: scripture, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas, Ambrose. (Folio 3 recto, column a, middle of the page.)

(xv) Saint Comgall and a foreign monk. Beginning ‘Manach craibdich tainic tairis anoir’. See Meyer, ‘Stories from the Edinburgh MS.XXVI (Kilbride Collection, No 22)’, page 9. (Folio 4 verso, column a, middle of the page.)

(xvi) On prostration before the crucifix. Beginning ‘Is iad so na ceitri cuisi fa ndleagar sleachtuin don croich cesta’. (Folio 4 verso, column a, bottom of the page.)

(xvii) The devil Caincuile in Armagh. Beginning ‘Caincuile .i. demon bai i nArd Macha’. See Meyer, ‘Stories from the Edinburgh MS.XXVI (Kilbride Collection, No 22)’, page 7. (Folio 4 verso, column b, line 6.)

(xviii) ‘Toirrsech me dod chumandsa’, 3 quatrains. Cf. O’Rahilly, “Measgra Dánta”, page 38. (Folio 4 verso, column b, line 36.)

(xvix) On the ‘blasa’ or tastes of foods. Beginning (acephalous) ‘na ballaib spirudalta o fhrichathughadh anagaid in coimpilex examail’. Gilbertinus cited. (Folio 5 recto, column a, line 1.)

(xx) Cures for felon. Beginning ‘Don filun and so sis. Ar fistula .i. gab sal[ann] costum ⁊ agairicum’. Folio 6 recto, column b, line 1 ‘Contra cantrum ⁊ fistula .i. luaitrid cinn con da crothad air’, cf. National Library of Ireland MS. G 11, page 285, column b. No authorities cited. (Folio 6 recto, column a, line 16.)

(xxi) On elephantiasis and morphea. Beginning ‘Labrum and so sis dona [coi]g gallraib neoch donither o comaentaid na mball ⁊ o chomchumasc na leandand .i. mar ata elifainnsia ⁊ moirfeada sgaibideis apostemata pruritus’. Authorities cited: Arnaldus, Hippocrates. (Folio 9 recto, column a, line 1.)

(xxii) Regimen for each month of the year, March-February. Beginning ‘(T)indsgeadal and so sis an aileamhain bidh ⁊ dighi dleaghar do gnathughadh in gach mhi fo leth sa bliadhain do reir leabair’. No authorities cited. (Folio 9 verso, column a, line 1.)

(xxiii) The day and hour in each month in which the Sun and Moon enter the same Sign. Beginning ‘Is e la teit grian ⁊ esca an aenchomartha .i. an .vii. mad la deg a ndiaigh lae Chaeilli ⁊ isi uair teid si annsin comhartha sin .i. a meadon lae’. (Folio 10 recto, column a, bottom of the page.)

(xxiv) On sleep. Beginning ‘Is coir duinn labra da chuisib in codalta mar tig se gu neoch’. Incomplete? (Folio 10 verso, column a, line 1.)

(xxv) ‘Ata an sund aenlaech ar cuan’, 35¼ quatrains. ‘Garbh mac Stairn’. Incomplete, folio 11 verso being illegible. (Folio 11 recto, line 1.