Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20967
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Type(s)	[4492] Φιλαγάθου πόνημα τοῦ φιλοσόφου (1 verse)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1251-1300
Manuscript	MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional 4554 (olim N.16) [1251-1300]
Place in Manuscript	f. 2r
Person(s)	Scribe Iakobos Bakkaros - PLP: II.91420
Palaeographical information	Written in epigraphische Auszeichnungsmajuskel.
Contextual information	Written on top of the folio, in the first column, following a rectangular ornamental headpiece.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Philagathos from Cerami (12th c.) (monotropos)
Image source(s)	http://bdh-rd.bne.es/viewer.vm?id=0000245106&page=6
Bibliography	Primary G. de Andrés Martínez, 1987, Catálogo de los códices griegos de la Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid: 17 Secondary A. Pizzone 2024, ‘Receiving Rich Gifts’. Negotiating Power in the Metrical Paratexts of the Vossianus Gr. Q1, in B. van den Berg, N. Zagklas (eds.), Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204). New Texts, New Approaches, Cambridge, 225-255: 232 (n. 27)
Number of verses	1
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Eleonora Lauro The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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