Authors featured in the collection include Voltaire, S.H. Vernede, d’Alibrac, J. Cats, Rhijnvis Feith, P. Boddaert, and H. Poot.

Authors featured in the collection include Voltaire, Elias Annes Borger, Frederik Christiaan de Greuve, J.L. Nierstasz Jr., Hendrik Tollens, William Cowper, Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, John Milton, Bas ter Haar Romeny, Thomson, A.J. de Bull, Moore, Petrus Augustus de Génestet, Nicolaas Beets, Lord Byron, Walter Scott, Victor Hugo, Jacob van Lennep, Hendrik Jan Schimmel, Willem Bilderdijk, Isaac da Costa, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and B. Hasebroek. There is a table of contents at the front of the collection.

The inscription is a quote from Voltaire and reads: ‘Qui depuis…! Mais alors il etait vertueux. Voltaire.’ The quotation is taken from La Henriade (Chant 8).

The notes include quotations from Voltaire, Cicero’s De officiis, Justinian’s Digesten, and Arnobius’ Contra gentes/Adversus nationes. They were likely compiled by Gijsbert Jan van Hardenbroek (1719-1788)

Also included are two Dutch allegorical poems: ‘De reuck gherepresenteert dooe eenen herder, ghenesende sijne schaepen’ and ‘De smaecke’; a Dutch document titled: ‘Samenspraek tusschen den jongman en zijne lief rosalin’; a Dutch religious treatise with a Latin title: ‘De miraculoso sanguine Sancti Nicolai Tolentinatis’, dated ‘Angiae 1763’; and Five legal documents in French: ‘Des jurisdictions du Bailly (…) du tournesis’, ‘La vie ou la bourse. Reflexions à faire tant pour le soldat que pour le citoyen’, ‘Objections touchant la nouvelle constitution du clergé de France et reponses à icelles’, a notarial document from Paris on vellum dated 18 February 1763, and a notarial document from Brussels dated 11 November 1805.

The translation forms part of a recueil of poems in Dutch. Included in the volume are:

• (unfoliated) Four pieces by Frans Halma “op bet Treurspel van Eneas en Turnus door den heere Lukas Rotgans,” the first dated Leeuwaarden, 22 Sept. 1714, and the third 1705
• Fol.1-17 “Gedichten voor en tegens Zaire, of de Koninglyke Slavin. Treurspel vertaald uit het Fransche van den heere Arovet de Voltaire door Govert Klinkhamer” subscribed “Yver”
• Fol.18 “Praatje van den Hengstebron voor het Pan Poeticon,” subscribed “Bloeyende”
• Fol.22 Replicq op’t bovenstaande Straadliedje;” subscribed “Dirk C s Lutjeman”
• Fol.25 “Lauwer-Kranszen voor Dichters, vertaalers, en Liefhebbers der Poëzy”