https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.9.9/manifest.jsonGale used this MS. for his edition of the work (1691). It is described as No. 16 in Skene's edition 1871. A facsimile of f.1 is in National MSS. of Scotland II. pl. LXX.I. Fordun's Scotichronicon.
f.1 1. Inc. tituli capitulorum libri primi (de) gente scotorum
2. Six lines of verse:
Incipies opus hoc adonay nomine nostri
Exceptum scriptis dirigat emanuel
Fantes ornate ructent dum verbula nectant
Compilatoris nomen superis elementis
Construe quem lector precor ora scandere celum
Atque pater noster offer amore dei. Amen.
f.2 Text. De vetustate originis etc.
Ex variis quippe veterum scripturis.
At f.168b is a break (in lib. vii anno 1284) and a new foliation begins.
II. There follows immediately the complaint to Pope John XII., the Papal correspondence with England and the Processus Baldredi contra figmenta Regis Anglie.
Hic finitur liber septimus.
f.25b Quomodo Rogerus Ep. Eboracensis nitebatur usurpare etc.
Processus contra regem Anglie habitus per hibernicos etc.
f.30b Ethelredi Riuallensis lamentacio regis Scotorum (l.v. 35-43.)
Supplements to books vii and viii, and continuation to1385.
Ending f.59b:
Anno (1383) captum est per scotos scil. comitem Will. de douglas et Archibaldum castrum de Lowmaben et destructum quarto die mens. Febr.
