Written in Latin. Page x: Blank. Page 1 Book I, ode 1. Unfinished border and incipit. In border: squares with heads of three woman and one king, interspersed with four diamond shapes with crouching pipe-playing satyrs. The start of the text of Book I, which was to be decorated, is only outlined in pencil: 'Maecenas atauis edite regibus, o et praesidium et dulce'. The writing in ink starts with the last two words of line 2: 'decus meum'. | Slide roll title: MS. Lat. class. e. 38 | By William Morris, Charles Fairfax Murray and Edward Burne-Jones. Written by William Morris. This manuscript is unfinished. On some pages, decorated initials and borders were left unpainted, outlined in pencil and ink