This Greek lexicon was originally composed in the tenth century, and explained the meaning and origin of words through etymologies that are often spurious.

This edition is a particularly fine example of early printing in the Greek language in Italy, with its type modelled on Byzantine cursive. It also presents an early form of two-colour printing in red and black. It was printed in Venice by the Cretan Zacharias Callierges with the support of his patron Nicolaus Blastos. Its editor, the fellow Cretan Markos Musuros, was a renowned professor of Greek in northern Italy who would teach Desiderius Erasmus.

Binding description
Seventeenth-century red calfskin; covers decorated with the arms of Jacques Amelot de Beaulieu; gilt edges.