Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Manuscript
OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Holkham gr. 79

Content	Theologica > Alia Theologica > Maximos the Confessor (person page)
Person(s)	Patron Basileios Bessarion (1399-1400 - 18/11/1472) - RGK: I.41, II.61, III.77 - VGH: 59.E - PLP: II.2707 (kardinalios) Scribe Ioannes Plousiadenos of Crete < Greece (1429 - 09/08/1500) - RGK: I.176, II.234, III.294 - VGH: 185.H - PLP: X.23385 (archon, protopapas, psaltes, thytes)
Date	1451-1500
Bibliography	R. Barbour 1960, Summary description of the Greek manuscripts from the Library at Holkham Hall, The Bodleian Library Record, 6, 591-613: 607 E. Despotakis 2021, The MS Oxon. Bodl. Holkham gr. 79. Historical and Philological Remarks, in A. Rigo, N. Zorzi (eds.), I libri di Bessarione. Studi sui manoscritti del Cardinale a Venezia e in Europa, Turnhout, 405-414: passim
Identification	Diktyon (Pinakes) , 48147
Comment	According to Despotakis (2021: 407-408), the mention of Bessarion as cardinal of Nicea, but not as patricarch of Constantinople, in the epigram located at f. 4v suggests the date of May 15, 1463 as terminus ante quem for the dating of the manuscript. Despotakis also adds that the year 1463, just after Bessarion was appointed as Latin patriarch of Constantinople, could actually be the date of completion of the manuscript.
Occurrences	f. 4v [35802] σημαῖα σοφοῦ βησσαρίωνος ῆδε [1451-1500] f. 4v [35807] ἔπειτα δὲ γέγονε καὶ π(ατρ)ιάρχης [1451-1500]
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Eleonora Lauro The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.

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