This copy, which contains 311 articles, was written in 1611–1614, in the main by Aonghus mac Fearchair mic Aonghuis, in Ardchonnel, for Donnchadh Ó Conchubhair. The scribe appears to be Aonghus Mac Beathadh, son of Farquhar Beaton of Husibost, Skye (see MacKinnon, Cat., top of p. 299).
Farquhar was physician to the Lord of the Isles, and he was, in his time, possessor of the well-made copy of the Irish Lilium Medicinae which is described by MacKinnon on p. 298– 301 (now NLScot. MS 2076). The handwriting in MS 2076 will need to be examined to see if it bears out the statement in MacKinnon p. 299 that that manuscript also was written by Aonghus. Aonghus received some of his medical training from Donnchadh Ó Conchubhair of Dunolly in Argyle. This Donnchadh (1571–1647) became ‘Donnchadh Albanach’ when he was in Ireland in the 1590's with Donnchadh Óg Ó Conchubhair, who was very likely a relative of his. In 1596, he was in the home of Donnchadh Óg, at Cullohill — Cúl Choill — by Achadh mic Airt, Mac Giolla Pádraig's headquarters, making a copy of the Irish Lilium Medicinae