Written in a minuscule script with interlinear and marginal glosses with numerous Greek quotations; 17 large initials of interlace ornamental decoration in color, headings in red. The last two folios of text supplied in a 15th-cent. hand. Written in Italy. Title from heading. Bound in 15th-cent. Italian blind-tooled brown goatskin; rebacked. In a tray case, 25 cm. Bequest of William K. Richardson, 1951. Erased early ownership inscription on the back flyleaf; stated without evident grounds to have belonged to Lorenzo de' Medici; Quaritch (cat., 1868, n. 60); Henry Alan (bookplate); Samuel Allen; his sale (London, 1920, n. 92); to Maggs; J. Martini (cat. 17, 1921, n. 18, and cat. 18, 1922, n. 15); to Richardson.
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