The corpus contains 497 charters, divided in 21 categories:
- 1: BL 1 - 311 Rights belonging to religious orders before the Reformation, with the University's title to them, 1304-1640. Almost all the properties involved are in Glasgow, but exceptions include the earliest item, which concerns the burgh of Dumbarton. The main sources of the University's titles were the Dominican Friars in Glasgow and the Vicars Choral of the Cathedral, but the former properties of chaplainries are also included.
- 2: BL 312 - 314 Rights to Blackfriars Yards, 1578.
- 3: BL 315 - 325 Colmonell teinds, 1552-1685, and the houses and land purchased from William Laing, 1520/1-1706.
- 4: BL 326 - 375 The 'Grassum Lands' (the 5s land of Dovehill), 1556-1717.
- 5: BL 376 - 393 The Principal's house, 1557-1639.
- 6: BL 394 - 395 Rights in Avondale and Queen Mary's foundation of bursaries for five poor children.
- 7: BL 396 - 402 Part of Dovehill purchased from John Bryson, 1620-1717.
- 8: BL 403 - 406 Chaplainry of St Mungo, 1578-1634.
- 9: BL 407 - 415 Jordanhill's Mortification and the teinds belonging to Stewart of Balschagrie in the parish of Govan, 1576-1655.
- 10: BL 416 - 436 The remainder of the teinds of Govan parish and the customs of Glasgow, 1577-1654.
- 11: BL 437 - 444 Renfrew and East Kilbride teinds, 1593-1651.
- 12: BL 445 - 446 Michael Wilson's mortification, 1617, 1640.
- 13: BL 447 - 448 Annuity payable by the magistrates of Rutherglen, 1618, 1636.
- 14: BL 449 - 461 The sub-deanery of Glasgow and the teinds of Cadder and Monkland, 1624-1670.
- 15: BL 462 - 466 Lands of Ballagan and Garscube, 1577-1655.
- 16: BL 467 - 471 Mortifications to the University of Glasgow, 1627-1652.
- 17: BL 472 - 473 Bishopric of Galloway, 1641-1642.
- 18: BL 473(2) - 480 Mortifications to the University of Glasgow, 1652-1697.
- 19: BL 481 Part of Blackfriars church and churchyard, 1699.
- 20: BL 482 - 484 King William's mortifications and Queen Anne's donation, 1695-1708.
- 21: BL 485 - 497 Miscellanea (copies of early writs and general ratifications, etc.), [1451]-1654.
This collection is part of the Records of the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland collection.