Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19776
(formerly occ/3583)

βίβλος πέφυκα πρὸς λόγους γηροτρόφος,
γηρῶσα τῷ νῷ καὶ νεάζουσα πάλιν,
τῶν γραμμάτων καίνισμα ἐκ πολλαχόθεν.
τοίνυν πρὸ ἔνδον εἰσφέρω τῶν ἐγκάτων
βίους ἀνάκτων τῆς νέας Ῥωμαΐδος,
Ῥώμης παλαιτάτης τε καὶ τριπεμπέλου
πολλῶν τε πάντων τῶν βεβασιλευκότων
Πέρσαις τε Χαλδαίοις τε καὶ Ἀσσυρίοις·
πόνημα καὶ γὰρ πανσόφου Κωνσταντίνου
πέλω Μανασσῆ τοῦ γραμματικοτάτου.
Type(s) [3720] Βίβλος πέφυκα πρὸς λόγους γηροτρόφους (18 verses)
Text source I. Bekker, 1837, Constantini Manassis Breviarium Historiae Metricum, Bonn: 287
Text status Text completely known
Date 1301-1325
Manuscript OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Auct. T. 2.5 [1301-1325]
Place in Manuscript f. 223r
Palaeographical information Written in red ink.
Contextual information The epigram is written at the end of Constantine Manasses' Compendium chronicum and is followed by another book epigram.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Subject(s) Constantine Manasses (1130-1187) - PBW: Konstantinos/302/
Comment Coxe (1969: 761): 'versus decem iambici a P. Labbe exscripti, et in ed. Byzant. p. 191 impressi'.
Cataldi Palau (2011: 214) gives only the first and last verse.
Bibliography

Primary

Secondary

H. Coxe, 1969, Greek Manuscripts, Oxford: 761
Number of verses 10
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Renaat Meesters
Contributor(s)
Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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