Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21924
(formerly occ/5792)

	Ἔχων ὁ Μάρκος τὸν σκοπὸν πρὸς τὸ γράφειν
	μένει σιωπῶν, οὐ γὰρ ὡς ἄπνους τύπος,
	ἀλλ’ ὡς ἔτι ζῶν καὶ κινεῖται καὶ πνέει
	κἂν ἀτρέμας πέπηγεν ἠρέμα γράφων:+

Type(s)	[5154] Ἔχων ὁ Μάρκος τὸν σκοπὸν πρὸς τὸ γράφειν (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1376-1400
Manuscript	TIRANA - Arkivi Qëndror i Shtetit - Fonds Kodikët e Shqipërisë 488 Dosja 38 [1376-1400]
Place in Manuscript	f. 68v
Contextual information	The epigram accompanies a miniature of the evangelist Mark.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Image-related epigram
Subject(s)	Mark (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s)	Rhoby (2018: 739)
Bibliography	Primary J. Koder, E. Trapp 1968, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften im Staatsarchiv zu Tirana, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinischen Gesellschaft, 17, 197-214: 205 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 98, 739 (image: plate 2) Secondary K. Demoen 2022, Manuel Philes and (An) Anonymous Poet(s): Epigrams on the Evangelists in an Illuminated Gospel Manuscript, in F. Spingou (ed.), The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (vol. 2), Cambridge / New York, 1388-1397: 1390, 1394
Number of verses	4
Related occurrence(s)	[25871] ἔχων ὁ μάρκος τὸν σκοπὸν πρὸς τὸ γράφειν [13th-14th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 960 (olim 758) [1128] (f. 105r) (4 verses) (4/4) [24066] ἔχων ὁ μάρκος τὸν σκοπὸν πρὸς τὸ γράφειν [14th c.] MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 407 (Vlad. 25) [12th-14th c.] (f. 85v -- (alt.) f. 79v) (4 verses) (4/4)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) 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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