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 titular phrase ‘Proscription du comte d’Orange’ is written in Voltaire’s hand.

The text and marginal notes (found on p.3, 4, and 6) are neither in Voltaire’s hand not Wagnière’s. The MS is undated and is not signed. It is missing the ‘Résumé’.

The manuscript title carries the following remark ‘N. B. Les Druses ne disent jamais de mal du diable. Ils disent qu’il est assez malheureux. Parmi les Turcs, les fous sont réputés saints.’ Additionally, both the title and the incipit are written in Voltaire’s hand.

The MS features additions and correction in the hand of Jacques-Joseph-Marie Decroix who was preparing the work for publication.

After Voltaire’s death, Longchamp recalls the time he spent in the writer’s service, which coincided with the Cirey period, including trips to Fontainebleau, Sceaux and Lunéville. The document was edited by Decroix for publication.