The volume includes a Hebrew grammar (folio 1); 'Linguae Chaldaicae brevis institutio' (folio 23); Syriac and Hebrew vocabularies (folios 27 verso, 30 verso); "Solomon's Song resolved" (folio 44); Oriental alphabets (folio 95); 'A Manuduction to the utter porch of the Arabick Grammar Schoole' (folio 97 verso); 'Chronologia sacra' (inverted folios 139 verso-135 verso, 122 verso-104, 88 verso-83 verso); also Latin elegies on persons associated with Fife and Kinross (inverted folios 133-131) and other Latin verse.

Most of the manuscript is in the hand of Robert Melvill, who finished the Hebrew grammar in 1665 (folio 20), and whose name appears also on folio 140 verso. In some of the elegies the author calls himself Melvinus. Other names which occur are Ja Donaldsone (folio 63); Robert Melvin, whose hand seems different from that of the aforesaid Robert Melvill (folio 140 verso); Thomas Melvin ('ex libris', folio 141 verso); and William Melvill (folio 140 verso).