Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22057
(formerly occ/5925)

	Τῆς γραμματικῆς τέχνης εἰμὶ πιξίον·
	εὔληπτον ευσύνη\|πτον ἐστενομένον·
	σαφὲς καθαρὸν, εὐκρινὲς γεγραμ(έν)ον· \|
	πρὸς πεύσιν ἰθύνων τε καὶ ἀποκρίσεις·
	ὁ γὰρ τρόπος \| φέριστος, εἰς τὸ συμφέρειν·
	ἄγαν λόγον μάθημα, τ(ῶν) \| λογ’ ἐμπόρων·

Type(s)	[5248] Τῆς γραμματικῆς εἰμὶ τέχνης πυξίον (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1460-1465
Manuscript	ATHENS - Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados 1077 [1460-1465]
Place in Manuscript	f. 1r
Person(s)	Scribe Paulos son of Phostiniatos (15th c.) - VGH: 378.C (anagnostes)
Contextual information	The epigram precedes Manuel Moschopoulos' 'Erotemata grammatica'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Grammar Manuel Moschopoulos - PLP: VIII.19373
Image source(s)	https://digitalcollections.nlg.gr/nlg-repo/dl/en/browse/3164
Bibliography	Primary C. Constantinides 1993, Poetic Colophons in Medieval Cypriot Manuscripts, in A. Bryer (ed.), The Sweet Land of Cyprus. papers given at the twenty-fifth jubilee Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1991, Nicosia, 319-380: 331 C. Constantinides, R. Browning, 1993, Dated Greek Manuscripts from Cyprus to the year 1570, Washington: 232-233 I. De Vos, S. De Groot, A. Rouckhout 2019, “I am a Grammatical Textbook”. Towards a Critical Edition of a Deceivingly Simple Book Epigram, in T. Scheijnen, B. Verhelst (eds.), Parels in schrift. Huldeboek voor Marc De Groote, Ghent, 91-94: 92-93 Secondary M. Tomadaki, E. van Opstall 2019, The Tragedians from a Byzantine Perspective: Book Epigrams on Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 19, 193-220: 213
Number of verses	6
Related occurrence(s)	[19746] τῆς γραμματικῆς εἰμὶ τέχνης πυξίον [16th c.] LEIDEN - Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit - Voss. gr. Q° 20 [13th c.] (f. 246v -- (alt.) f. 247v) (3 verses) (3/6) [29383] τῆς γραμματικῆς εἰμὶ τέχνης πυξίον [13th c.] LEIDEN - Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit - Voss. gr. Q° 20 [13th c.] (f. 247r -- (alt.) f. 248r) (6 verses) (6/6) [21505] Γραμματικῆς εἰμὶ τέχνης πυκτίον [15th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 1192 [15th c.] (f. 22v) (6 verses) (6/6) [25338] ῆς γραμματικῆς εἰμὶ τέχνης πυξί(ον) [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1332 [13th-14th c.] (f. 53r) (6 verses) (6/6) [29518] Τῆς γραμματικῆς εἰμι τέχνης πυξίον [16th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - phil. gr. 79 [16th c.] ((gen.) at the beginning of the manuscript) (6 verses) (6/6)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Ilse De Vos, Maria Tomadaki The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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