Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20841
(formerly occ/4543)

	βίβλος μὲν τελέθουσα λυκόφρονος ἀσματοκόμπου·
	ἦν ἀλαὸς προπάροιθεν, ἀδερκέα δέργματ᾽ ἔχουσα·
	νῦν δέ με δορκαλέην ἑρμείῃ θήκατο τέχνῃ·
	τζέτζης ἰσαάκιος εὔστροφα πείσματα λύσας:~

Type(s)	[2219] Βίβλος μὲν τελέθουσα Λυκόφρονος ᾀσματοκόμπου (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1476-1500
Manuscript	MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana C 32 sup. [1476-1500]
Place in Manuscript	f. 127r
Palaeographical information	The first two verses are written in red ink, the other ones in black ink. Initials are written in the opposite color.
Contextual information	The epigram precedes the Alexandra of Lycophron, and follows after two other epigrams: "κύκνος γ᾽ ἐάσας τὴν ὑφήλιον χθόνα" and "φερωνύμως λέλογχε (...)".
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Isaak Tzetzes - PBW: Isaakios/106/ Lycophron (3rd c. BC)
Comment	The different ink used for the verses suggests that the scribe felt them as belonging to two different epigrams.
Bibliography	Primary E. Martini, D. Bassi, 1906, Catalogus codicum graecorum Bibliothecae Ambrosianae (vol. 1), Milan: 186 C. Müller, 1811, Ἰσαακίου καὶ Ἰωάννου τοῦ Τζέτζου, Σχόλια εἰς Λυκόφρονα (vol. 2), Leipzig: 1049
Number of verses	4
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Renaat Meesters Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, 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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