The volume was made in Cork as a military “Defaulter’s Book”, and obtained by a Sergeant Gardner, from whose father-in-law, James Beaton, Castle Street, Inverness, Angus Fraser purchased it from to use for his glossary (page ii). A number of leaves are excised at the beginning. Pages i-x consist of a variety of additional leaves.

The contents are as follows.

(i) List of works referred to. (Page i.)

(ii) Note on purchase of book. (Page ii.)

(iii) Summary of Gaelic metrics. (Page iii.)

(iv) Requirements of various metrical styles. (Page v.)

(v) List of epithets of characters in Ossianic verse. (Page vii.)

(vi) Fragment relating to purchase of the glossary for a guinea. (Page ix.)

(vii) Title-page. (Page xiii.)

(viii) Glossary Abadh-Mhorsgairt. (Folio xiv.)