The collection includes:

• Verse by the Chevalier and Marquise de Boufflers, Madame de Caylus and Madame Saint-Clou
• Verse dedicated to, or relating to, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, François de Neufchâteau, Turgot, Sicard, and Voltaire.
• Songs in various languages including: Chinese, French, Greek, Hindu, Italian, Peruvian, Portuguese, Russian, Swiss and Turkish.

The recueil seems to have been owned and/or compiled by Mr. de Maffle.

The authors featured in the volume include:

• Auneix de Souvenel
• Ponce-Denis Lebrun
• Aimé-Ambroise-Joseph Feutry
• Louis XIV of France
• Louis XV of France
• Louis Mangenot
• Jean-François Marmontel
• François-August Paradis de Moncrif
• Voltaire

The recueil contains works by the likes of Voltaire and Saint-Lambert, and features a table des pièces at the end of the volume. The MS was formerly catalogued with the shelfmark: Supplément français 5870.

The poem offers a playful critique of traditional romantic songs, ridiculing their themes of love and virtue as outdated and unrealistic. The speaker encourages fellow songwriters to abandon sentimental topics in favour of scandalous or bawdy stories, while still maintaining a sense of decorum. He dismisses refined madrigals as bland, preferring the raw humour of simple, unpolished songs.