'Hymne a tres-haute ... Princesse Elizabeth Royne d'Angleterre, France, et Irelande etc. Presentee a sa Maiesté par Georges de La Motthe, gentilhomme Francoys . 1586', a laudatory French poem by a French refugee, with prose preface. The poem beg. 'Qui voudra figurer, d'vn ouurage parfect'. At fol. 7 is a miniature of the Queen, on the title-page is an emblematic picture, on fol. 4v the Royal Arms, and every page is surrounded with a painted border with small figures, emblematic devices, arms, conjoined letters, etc.

Both preface and poem are purely rhetorical, but the writer (who is also the painter) not obscurely asks for assistance. See W. D. Macray's Annals of the Bodleian, 2nd ed. (1900), p. 464, where it is mentioned that the enamel on the binding used to be considered made of humming birds' feathers. Attached to fol. 20 is a leaf of some English theological treatise in minute writing of the 17th cent.