The contents are as follows:

(i) Original settings of poems with pianoforte accompaniment (folio 1);

(ii) Arrangements of traditional Scottish and other airs and of poems of Burns, chiefly for solo voice and piano (folio 32);

(iii) Words and unaccompanied melodies of various Scottish airs (folio 89);

(iv) Copies of two tunes from early sources written in the same hand as that of, and on sheets probably taken from, MS.22093 (folio 96).