[The Alexandra, with the commentary of Isaac and John Tzetzes].

Forms part of the Kenneth Willis Clark Collection of Greek Manuscripts (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)

Format: Manuscript codex.

Title supplied by cataloger.

Layout: Written in 1 column of 15 lines; ruled with a mastara on the verso of each leaf.

Script: The text is written in a humanistic Greek scholar's hand, very small, pendant, in brown minuscules, and rapidly written with few flourishes.

Decoration: No ornament except for initial letters at the beginning of portions of the poem and the subsequent commencement of the commentary; in the same ink as the text.

Title cataloged from existing description.

Fol. 1r-250r Alexandra with commentary of Isaac and John Tzetzes. fol. 1r-4v: Introduction to the commentary [Scheer, Lycophronis, II, 1-7]; fol. 5r-250r: Text of poem with interlinear notes in red ink and additional marginal commentary in red throughout [Scheer, Lycophronis, II, 8-398].

Binding: Limp vellum binding sewn on three alum-tawed strips which are pasted down under the endsheets; the endbands are worked over alum strips using green and yellow silk and tied down no more than four times throughout the textblock. The slips of the endbands are laced into the covers and pasted down under the endsheets.