The court poet Theodore Prodromos wrote an "encomium" and a eulogy in hexameter for Isaac, where he praises his erudition and talent. Isaac is identified as the author of a paraphrase of the "Letter of Aristeas" in politic verse, preserved in the Seraglio Octateuch, and as the likely patron of this luxurious manuscript. In the "typikon", Isaac himself claims to have composed poetry and compiled it in a book, and is sometimes identified with the writer called "Isaac Komnenos the "porphyrogennetos"" who composed two commentary works on Homer.