The hand is anonymous except where noted. Notes passim by Donald Mackintosh.

The first folio of text is missing, as is that between pages 71 and 74. According to the contents list the text in the latter was on “How Ossian praiseth a woman he had seen in the night, tho’ he was in a deep sleep”. Poems marked * were considered by Duncan Kennedy ‘not so valuable, having found but one or two edditions of each, which makes them note complete, nor perhaps so pure, they being collected in the lower parts of Argyleshire”. (Adv.MS.73.2.13, folio 162). The remainder were copied in revised form into Adv.MS.72.3.10.

The contents are as follows.

(i) Acephalous account of the lives of Fingal and Ossian, in English. (Page iii.)

(ii) Contents list. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page xx. (Page xii.)

(iii) “Latha bha Pádraig na mhúr”, 62 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 98. (Page 1.)

(iv) ‘A Chleirich a chanas na sailm’, 71 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 74. (Middle of page 11.)

(v) “Tha sgéul beug agam air Fionn”, 31 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 131. (Middle of page 22.)

(vi) * ‘Latha dhuinn air Luachair leoghaid’, 23 quatrains. Cf. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, pages 65, 67. (Page 27.)

(vii) “‘S bristeach mo chroidhe-sa Phádraig”, 15 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 105. (Page 31.)

(viii) * “Thuaras lorg an laoich sa bhlár”, 15 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 58. (Middle of page 33.)

(ix) “Latha dhuinn bhi ‘n glean diamhair”, 17 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 144. (Page 36.)

(x) ‘Latha dhuinn sealg na Leana’, 33 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 145. (Bottom of page 38.)

(xi) ‘Latha chuaidh Fionn do thigh Liuir’, 32 quatrains + prose. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 126. (Middle of page 43.)

(xii) “Air bhi dhuinn la sa Bhéinn tseilg”, 21 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 92. (Page 48, line 5.)

(xiii) * ‘Latha dhuinne bhi re fiadhach’, 30 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 62. (Page 51, line 5.)

(xiv) * ‘Teachdair do bha ag an righ’, 11 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 63. (Bottom of page 55.)

(xv) * “Latha bha Fionn is seisear ag ól”, 22 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 94. (Middle of page 57.)

(xvi) “Latha dhuinn air magh ór-bhuidh”, 9 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 58. (Middle of page 62.)

(xvii) * “Oidhche bha sinn a múr Bhéura”, 15 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 60. (Page 64.)

(xviii) * ‘Ailis dhamh a Chaoilte chruadhach’, 15 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 57. (Middle of page 66.)

(xix) ‘Latha da deachaidh sinn siar’, 17 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 143. Pages 72-73 missing. (Middle of page 69.)

(xx) * “Latha dhúinne sealg na Cluanach”, 28 quatrains + English prose. ‘Argument’ acephalous. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 53. (Page 74.)

(xxi) “Latha dhuinne bhi ‘n glean cruadhach”, 32 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 55. (Bottom of page 78.)

(xxii) “Greis air cathream an fhir mhóir”, 64 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 109. (Bottom of page 83.)

(xxiii) “Sgéulachd air Chonn mac an Deirg”, 45 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 115. (Bottom of page 92.)

(xxiv) Note by Kennedy, 28 January 1806, giving the manuscript to the Highland Society of Scotland. (Page 99.)

(xxv) “‘S moch a ghoiras a Chórr”, 22 quatrains + English prose. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 153. Cf. ‘Revue Celtique’, volume 33, page 54. (Page 100.)

(xxvi) “‘S cumhain leam an iomairt ud”, 53 quatrains + English prose. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 155. (Bottom of page 107.)

(xxvii) “‘S gleann síth an gleann so r’ar taobh”, 86 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 158. Cf. ‘Revue Celtique’, volume 33, page 170. (Page 116, line 4.)

(xxviii) “A Righinn is binne ceól”, 27 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 168. (Middle of page 128.)

(xxix) ‘Latha do chuaidh Fionn le Fhianntaidh’, 38 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 177. (Middle of page 140.)

(xxx) “‘S muladach mi fad o’m dhaoine”, 145 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 185. (Middle of page 145.)

(xxxi) * “Innis dhamhsa Phádraig”, 71 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 44. (Page 168.)

(xxxii) “So far am faca mi ‘n Fhiann”, 17 quatrains. ‘Leabhar na Feine’, page 48. (Bottom of page 178.)

(xxxiii) A version of quatrains 5, 6, 7 and 16 of “Là bha Pàdraig ‘na mhùr” as it appears in Adv.MS.72.3.10, page 1. (Page 182.)