A title page which reads `Atlas Scoticus seu Scotia Antiqua et Moderna` has been pasted onto folio 1 but the contents of the manuscript are not those listed in Sibbald`s ‘Nuncius Scoto-Britannus, sive admonitio de Atlante Scotico’.

The contents of the manuscript are as follows:

(i) Description of the Scottish Parliament, undated (folio 2).

(ii) `Caledonia seu Scotia Antiqua`, circa 1687 (folio 3). This corresponds with the published description given by Sibbald in ‘An Account of the writers antient and modern’, pages 9-11, which ends with Book 2, part 1, chapter 5. The manuscript also breaks off here with a note `reliquam vide in alio vollumine MS.` (folio 14) which does not refer to Adv.MS.33.3.26. The text is preceded by a list of contents (folio 2 verso) which goes up to Book 2, part 2, section 18.

(iii) `Britanniae, partis Septentrionalis, quae Scotia dicitur, Descriptio` (folio 15). A general description of Scotland, including the government and law courts, followed by the individual shires. It is fuller than Adv.MS.15.1.5 and includes material on the nobility and verses by contemporary poets. Many of the descriptions of the shires are taken from William Camden`s ‘Britannia’ with other descriptions by Sibbald, John MacLellan, Robert Gordon, Robert Edward and George Buchanan added.

(iv) `Brevissima Scotiae Descriptio` from George Buchanan, ‘Rerum Scoticarum Historia’, book 1 (folio 78 verso).

(v) `Additamenta ex Cambdeno` on the Borders and Dumfriesshire (folio 80 verso).