Contents include: collections from 'Mountaine his Essayes'; collections from 'The Historye of Scanderbegge'; collections from 'Charron, de Sapientiâ'; collections from 'Sleiden's Comentaries'; 'Collections out of Perkins'; 'Collections out of the Vocall Forist'; 'Collections out of Donne's Lettres'; 'Excerpta ex Marcelli Paling: Signis Yodiacis'.

The document concerns a dispute over a property said to have been given to Montaigne's brother Arnaud, who had died in his twenties. The dispute was settled in an ecclesiastical court. With a second document dated 1581.