8vo. [16], 526pp, [6]. With an additional engraved title page. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, title in manuscript to spine. Rubbed and marked, staining to top edge, light damp-staining to lower board. Rear pastedowns sprung. Later inked ownership inscription of Michaël à (?) Westranen and naive ink-sketch to RFEP. Endpapers slightly browned, otherwise internally clean and crisp.

A collection of 'Prosody', or poetry, by Flemish physician and scholar Henrich Smet (1535 or 1537-1614). The physician of the Count of Lippe, and later Elector Palatine, Frederick III, Smet would lecture at the University of Heidelberg's medical faculty from 1574. Alongside medicine, he took great interest in poetry and translation, compiling a highly successful dictionary of Latin words. This collection of Latin verse, collected from various Ancient poets, features intricate marginalia, displaying the original author to the left of each line, and a gloss of notably complex words, featuring full diacritics, to the right.