Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17248
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	+ οἱ φιλόχρηστοι καὶ φηλόψυχη πάντες ⁘
	καὶ τὸν θ(εὸ)ν φέροντες ἐν τὴ καρδήα ⁘
	μέμνησθε τηνὸς πλὴν πάθους βασιλείου ⁘
	τοῦ πόθου κτησαμένου τὴν δέλτον ταύτην ⁘
	εἰς λύτρον εἰς ἄμηψην ἀμαρτημάτων, ⁘
	εἰς ἀπὸτροπὴν πάντων τῶν αἰναντή(...)
	ἐτὲλέσθη γὰρ τὸ ὄντη μεγαλήων ⁘
	ἔτους πέλουσα ἐξάκῆσχηλιάδος ⁘
	νῦν καὶ πὲντακὸς ἐξήκοντα καὶ θ' ⁘
	ἰνδηκτηὄνος δὲ τεσσαρη καὶ δεκάτης ⁘
	βὰσηλεύοντος δουκὸς τοῦ κωσσταντήνου ⁘
	καὶ εὐδοκίας τῆς τοῦτου γὰρ σὺνεύνου ⁘
	παίδας ἔχοντες κωνστάντηον (?) (...)αν (?) ⁘

Type(s)	[4399] Οἱ φιλόχριστοι καὶ φιλόψυχοι πάντες (13 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	01/09/1061-31/08/1062
Manuscript	JERUSALEM - Mone Megales Panaghias sine numero [01/09/1061-31/08/1062]
Place in Manuscript	f. 1r
Person(s)	Patron Basileios (11th c.) Scribe Ioannes (11th c.) - VGH: 211.A
Palaeographical information	The poem is written in vermillion ink, in epigraphic Auszeichnungsmajuskel. It occupies the entire folio.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Basileios (11th c.) Eudokia Makrembolitissa (11th c.) - PBW: Eudokia/1/ Konstantinos X Doukas - PBW: Konstantinos/10/ Konstantios Doukas (1060 - 18/10/1081) - PBW: Konstantios/61/
Comment	The date is executed erroneously in this poem; the text gives the date 1561-1562 instead of the correct date, which is 1061-1062. The tenth verse has thirteen instead of the expected twelve syllables.
Image source(s)	Lake, plate 369 https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00279395025-jo/?sp=3 https://manuscripts.csntm.org/manuscript/View/GA_Lect_159
Bibliography	Primary K. Lake, S. Lake, 1936, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200. Manuscripts in Paris, part II, Oxford, Berlin, Vienna and Jerusalem (vol. 5), Boston: 21 A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, 1897, Ἱεροσολυμιτικὴ βιβλιοθήκη ἤτοι κατάλογος τῶν ἐν ταῖς βιβλιοθήκαις τοῦ ἁγιωτάτου ἀποστολικοῦ τε καὶ καθολικοῦ ὀρθοδόξου πατριαρχικοῦ θρόνου τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων καὶ πάσης Παλαιστίνης ἀποκειμένων ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων (vol. 3), Saint-Petersburg: 227-228 D. Polemis 1965, Notes on the Eleventh-Century Chronology, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 58(1), 60-76: 72
Number of verses	13
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Raf Praet The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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