Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19051
(formerly occ/2487)

	Ἀβράμοιο παίς γράφεν τήνδε βίβλον ἑῆ χειρί·
	Ἥ τέρμα εἴληφεν αἰῶνος ἐφ᾽ ἑβδομάτοιο·
	Ἀρίθμοῖο δέοντος ἐτῶν δέκα (καὶ) ἑκατῶν γε,
	Λῆξιν λαβεῖν μερόπων ἅπαν φύλον ὂν ἐπὶ γαίης·
	Ἥ πυκνὰς ἀμφιδρόμ(ους) ἕλικ(ας) μαστεύουσα πλανήτων,
	Μυθέεται μερόπε(σσιν)· ἀψευδῆ ἔπεα πάντα,
	Ἠδὲ καλά τε φαῦλ᾽ ὅσα τοῖσδε πρόκειται πρὸς θεοῖο,
	Ἀθανάτοιο ἑζομ(έν)ου εὐρὺν ἐς οὐ(ρα)νὸν αἰεί·
	Ἧς ἔπεα μελιηδέα, χρυσοῖο πολλοῦ κρείττω·
	Ὧν τε διὰ μερόπων ποθέοντες κλεινοὶ δείκνυνται:- +

Type(s)	[3221] Ἀβράμοιο παῖς γράφεν τήνδε βίβλον ἑῇ χειρὶ (10 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1382
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 28, Cod. 16 [1382]
Place in Manuscript	f. 2v
Person(s)	Scribe Ioannes Abramios (14th c.) - VGH: 167.B
Palaeographical information	Initials in red ink.
Contextual information	This epigram is to be found just after the index.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000620224&keyworks=plut.28.16#page/14/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 32 A. Olivieri, 1898, Catalogus codicum astrologorum graecorum. Codices Florentinos (vol. 1), Brussels: 38 A. Turyn, 1972, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Italy. Text (vol. 1), Urbana: 246
Number of verses	10
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Lotte van Olmen, Floris Bernard The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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Last modified: 2021-02-02.