Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17051
(formerly occ/168)

	+ὡς φωσφόρον φέρει σε λάμποντα θρόνο(ς)·
	ταῖς ἀρεταῖς μάλιστα κατεστεμμένον·
	παρίσταταί σοι πιστοτάτων ἀκρότης·
	ἄνδρες λογάδες εὐγενεῖς ψυχὴν πλέο(ν).
	πλὴν τῶ γράφοντι συμπαθ(ὴ)ς ἔλθοις ἄναξ·
	πίστιν φέρει γαρ εἰς τοσὸν πλείστην κράτο(ς).

Type(s)	[2146] Ὡς φωσφόρον φέρει σε λάμποντα θρόνος (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1076-1100
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 79 [1076-1100]
Place in Manuscript	f. 2r
Person(s)	Patron Sabbas (monachos)
Palaeographical information	Written in red epigraphic Auszeichnungsmajuskel.
Contextual information	The epigram is written above a miniature of Nikephoros III Botaneiates.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	Michael VII Doukas Parapinakes (1050 - 1090) - PBW: Michael/7/ Nikephoros III Botaneiates (1001-1081) - PBW: Nikephoros/3/
Comment	Date: later years of reign Michael Doukas (1071-1078), and/or (depending on interpretation) reign of Nikephoros Botaneiates (1078-1081).
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8470047d/f9.item
Bibliography	Primary D. Bianconi 2012, All'ombra dell'imperatore. Sui caratteri grafici, materiali e decorativi del Paris. Coisl. 79 (e del Lond. Add. 11870), in P. Fioretti (ed.), Storie di cultura scritta. Studi per Francesco Magistrale, Spoleto, 127-172: 157 B. De Montfaucon, 1715, Bibliotheca Coisliniana, olim Segueriana, Paris: 136 C. Dumitrescu 1987, Remarques en marge du coislin 79: Les trois eunuques et le problème du donateur, Byzantion, 57(1), 32-45: 42-43 A. Paul 2012, Historical Figures Appearing in Epigrams on Objects, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 89-112: 96-97 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 155-157 I. Spatharakis, 1976, The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Leiden: 110-111 display 3 more references (6 in total) hide 3 references (6 in total) Secondary D. Bianconi 2013, Libri e paratesti metrici a Bisanzio nell’ XI secolo. In margine a una recente pubblicazione, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 13, 297-314: 306-309
Number of verses	6
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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