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This manuscript consists of three incomplete volumes of the Epitome of Plutarch. It was translated from Greek by Pietro Candido Decembrio (1399-1472), a humanist who worked for Filippo Maria Visconti, and as a secretary at the Aragonese court. The manuscript is decorated by fine miniatures of the Lombard school and contains the most complete fifteenth-century figurative commentary to Plutarch's work.
The initial from folio 88v represents Cato the Censor, wearing a cloak and a laurel wreath and holding a book in his left hand and a lance with an oriflamme decorated with an eagle in his right.
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