Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21001
(formerly occ/4712)

	ἐπίγραμμα εἰς τὴν εὐκλείδ(ου) γεωμετρίαν:~

	Εὐκλείδ(ης) νόον ὀξὺν ἀειζώοις γραμμαῖσι
	πάντα τε ἀτρεκέ(ως), ἐξερέεινε βροτοῖς·
	ὁπόσα μήσατο τηλεθόωσα φύσ(ις) συμβαίν(ειν):
	σχήμασιν ἠδ᾽ ὄγκ(οις) θειμέλιόν γε τόδε
	πάσης μ(ὲν) τεκτηνάμ(εν)ος σοφίης κόσμω δε
	παντὶ ἑῆς προλιπὼν σύμβολ(ον) εὐμαθίης:~

Type(s)	[3613] Εὐκλείδης νόον ὤξυν’ ἀειζώοις γραμμαῖσι (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th c.
Manuscript	MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana G 61 sup. [13th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 144v
Palaeographical information	Written in columns, to be read horizontally. Initial written in red ink.
Contextual information	It precedes Euclid's Elementa.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Euclid (4th c. BC - 3rd c. BC)
Bibliography	Secondary A. Gabriel, 1968, A Summary Catalogue of Microfilms of One Thousand Scientific Manuscripts in The Ambrosiana Library, Milan, Notre Dame, Indiana: 235 E. Martini, D. Bassi, 1906, Catalogus codicum graecorum Bibliothecae Ambrosianae (vol. 1), Milan: 481
Number of verses	6
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Renaat Meesters Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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