The copy forms part of a recueil of various works, including those by:

• Gabrielle-Émilie Du Châtelet
• Frederick II of Prussia
• Christian Gellert
• Salomon Gesner
• Jean-Jacques Le Franc de Pompignan
• Simon Lefrance de Pompignan
• Tunisie Tunis

The copy forms part of a recueil of various works, including those by:

• Gabrielle-Émilie Du Châtelet
• Frederick II of Prussia
• Christian Gellert
• Salomon Gesner
• Jean-Jacques Le Franc de Pompignan
• Simon Lefrance de Pompignan
• Tunisie Tunis

The MS is divided into the following sections:

• ‘Diatribe du Docteur Akakia, médecin du Pape: décret de l’Inquisition; et rapport des professeurs de Rome au sujet d’un prétendu Président. Rome 1753.’
  
• ‘Berlin du 16eme Decembre 1752’
• ‘Decret de l’Inquisition de Rome’
• ‘Augement des Professeurs du Collége de la Sapience’
• ‘Mémoire’, written in the hand of Collini with an autograph correction by Voltaire
• ‘Reponse de Mr de Voltaire à Mr de Maupertuis’
• ‘Avertisement qui a paru dans les gazettes litteraires et ordinaires de Leipzig’

The text contains substantial variants, many of which do not appear in the print editions. A leaf between f.199 and f.200 appears to be missing.

The text contains substantial variants, many of which do not appear in the print edition.

This copy of the text contains substantial variants, many of which do not appear in the print editions. A correction on line 23 which corrects ‘déisme’ to ‘théisme’ indicates that the MS was produced between 1748 and 1750.

Count von Manteuffel sent this copy of the poem to Count von Brühl from Berlin on 21 October 1740.