Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19408
(formerly occ/2896)

	+ τέλος τοῦ ξενοφῶντος :+

	Ὧδε πέρας λάβεν ἡ ξενοφῶντος βίβλος ἀρίστη,
	παιδείην γε κύροιο καλῶς μάλα διεξιοῦσα·
	χειρὶ γεωργίου γραφεῖσα τοῦ χρυσοκόκκη,
	φιλέλφου δ᾽ ἀναλώμασι τοῦ φραγκίσκοιο κλῆσιν:-

Type(s)	[3497] Ὧδε πέρας λάβεν ἡ Ξενοφῶντος βίβλος ἀρίστη (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1427
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 55, Cod. 19 [1427]
Place in Manuscript	f. 230v
Person(s)	Patron Franciscus Philelphus (1398-1481) - RGK: II.520, III.606 - VGH: 105.B - PLP: XII.29803 Scribe George Chrysokokkes (15th c.) - RGK: II.95, III.127 - VGH: 86.G - PLP: XII.31141 (diakonos)
Palaeographical information	Title and inital in red ink.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Cyrus II the Great (590 BC - 530 BC) Franciscus Philelphus (1398-1481) - RGK: II.520, III.606 - VGH: 105.B - PLP: XII.29803 George Chrysokokkes (15th c.) - RGK: II.95, III.127 - VGH: 86.G - PLP: XII.31141 (diakonos) Xenophon of Athenai < Attike < Greece (430 BC - 354 BC)
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000865820&keyworks=plut.55.19#page/468/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 284
Number of verses	4
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Lotte van Olmen, Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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