The MS was compiled by Christian Masius (1711-1787), professor in Erlangen from 1768 onwards. The compilation includes works by:

• Du Jurien
• Franz Hollmann
• d’Argens
• Alexander Pope
• Harris
• Voltaire
• David Hume
• Plato
• Bumet

The collection is divided into two parts. Part one contains excerpts from François Fénélon’s Les Aventures de Télémaque, partial translations from French and English editions of this text, and notes (especially vocabulary lists).

Part 2 includes excerpts from works by eighteenth-century French writers. The authors include: Jean-François Marmontel, Arnaud Berquin, Denis Diderot, Voltaire, Charles de Montesquieu, Antoine Condorcet, Jacques Antoine Guibert, Charles Pinot-Duclos, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

The collection was likely compiled around 1800 by Michael Fischer, a student at the time.