The MS declares that it records two editions of Voltaire’s Tancrède, published by Prault in Paris in 1761. The author of the MS notes that there were significant changes made to the text between the first and second editions, and it is for this reason that they are recording instances of variants. The exemplars are taken from Acts 2-4.

The MS notes that it was compiled to identify variants between the 1736 edition of Alzire and the Beaumarchais edition of the same text. Examples from each edition are directly compared and contrasted throughout. The exemplars are taken from Acts 1-6.