Consists of a two-leaf autograph manuscript in calligraphy in Greek entitled "Iakōvou Rizou tou Neroulou ōdē eis tous Hellēnas" (Ode to the Greeks). It was most likely written by Rizos himself. Poem consists of 65 quatrains in two columns with a rhyme scheme of AD-BC. Published at Paris by the Marquis de Queux de Saint-Hillaire, Knight of the Greek Order of Redeemer in Paris in 1876, under the title: "Iakōvakē Rizou Neroulou Anekdota Poiēmata," p. 43-50. It was written after the end of the Revolution and before its printed edition in Paris. There are several differences between the manuscript and the printed version. Iakōvos Rizos was a scholar, writer-poet, and a politician. He was active in Moldavia and in the independent state of Greece as a minister of Foreign, Internal, Ecclesiastical and Justice, Counsellor of State, and ambassador of Greece in Istanbul.