This anthology is a collection of Greek poems, mainly epigrams, compiled by the Byzantine monk Maximus Planudes. Originally written in the late thirteenth century, these short compositions vary in genre: they are rhetorical, satirical, funerary, ekphrastic (offering vivid verbal descriptions of a visual entity -- real or imagined), votive and amorous. Each "type" is divided into brief thematic chapters in alphabetical order.

This is a first printed edition, produced in Florence by Lorenzo de Alopa and edited by Greek scholar Janus Lascaris (1445-1535). 

Bibliographic description
4to. [280] leaves ; 7 leaves in facsim. Printed signatures: A-KK⁸.

Binding description
Full goat skin in Victorian medieval-style binding with gothic-like tooling. Purple tooled endpapers, five double raised bands, gilt edges, blue and gold headbands.