Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19907
(formerly occ/3506)

Type(s)	[3905] Χεὶρ ἐμοῦ παντλήμονος τοῦ Μακαρίου (1 verse)
Text source	H. Coxe, 1969, Greek Manuscripts, Oxford: 526
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1289
Manuscript	OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Laud. gr. 40 [1289]
Place in Manuscript	f. 308r
Person(s)	Scribe Makarios (13th c.) - RGK: I.243 - VGH: 273.C - PLP: VII.16237
Palaeographical information	Written in cryptography.
Contextual information	The verse is preceded by two epigrams and a prose colophon, mentioning the year of completion and a request to the readers to pray for the scribe.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Makarios (13th c.) - RGK: I.243 - VGH: 273.C - PLP: VII.16237
Image source(s)	Turyn 1980, plate 105b
Bibliography	Primary K. Demoen 2022, Reading: Book Epigrams - Introduction, in F. Spingou (ed.), The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (vol. 2), Cambridge / New York, 1369-1380: 1370
Number of verses	1
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Renaat Meesters Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, 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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