Pindarus . Pindaros . Adde Theocriti Idyllia, Lycophronis Cassandrae fragmentum, et alia aliorum excerpta

Aristomenes water is the best.

Water is best. But the preamble wishes...

A red circular stamp is visible in the margin.

Water is best,
and gold stands out
a great possession, like fire
ablaze;
and in a friend is light,
and always seeing another fire.
It is said that Pythagoras
empty
names
to cast around
with a coin it seemed unseen.

The text contains the opening lines of Pindar's First Olympian Ode, followed by extensive scholia and commentary in a smaller, cursive hand.