The contents are as follows: (i) Copy, late seventeenth century, of a funeral oration in honour of George Earl Marischal (succeeded 1581) delivered in 1623 by William Ogston, professor of moral philosophy in Marischal College, Aberdeen (folio 1); (ii) A genealogical history, 1700, of the Earls Marischal (folio 16); (iii) Extracts and notes, circa 1700, from ‘Sutherlandia comitum annales’, a manuscript history dated 1631 and attributed to Alexander Ross of Aberdeen (folio 31).