Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22061
(formerly occ/5929)

	Ξεστήσα λικάβαντος Ἐν δὲ χιλίοις·
	τετρακοσίοισ· Καὶ εξήκον τάγε·
	Ἐν τυχάνοντα· Τοῦ χ(ριστο)ῦ καὶ θ(εο)ῦ μου·
	Μηνὶ μαἵω τε Ετύχανεν τετάρτη·
	Ἐν κυριακῆ· Φίλτατε ὥρα ἕκτη·
	Καὶ διαχειρὸς· Ἐμοῦ τοῦ ἀβερτέρου·
	Παύλου εὐτελοῦς Τάχα (καὶ) ἀναγνωστου·
	Τὸ ἐπίκλιον· Υἱὸς φωστηνιάτου·
	Ἔτος τοῦ ἀδαμ· Ἐξᾶσ τῆς χιλοντάδος
	Καὶ ἐννακωσιὸστοῦ Εξηκοστοῦ ὁγδόου·
	Ἡλίου κύκλοσ ἠκοστὸς· καὶ τέταρτος ὦ φίλε
	Ἢν καὶ τετρακεδέκατο(ς) Ὁ κύκλος τῆσ σελήνης

Type(s)	[5252] Ξυσθεῖσα λυκάβαντος ἐν δὲ χιλίοις (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1451-1475
Manuscript	ATHENS - Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados 1077 [1460-1465]
Place in Manuscript	f. 80r
Person(s)	Scribe Paulos son of Phostiniatos (15th c.) - VGH: 378.C (anagnostes)
Palaeographical information	The initials of each verse and of the first word after each caesura are written in red ink.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Comment	Constantinides (1993: 234): "This subscription was written on Sunday, 4 May 1460. It comprises twelve verses of which the first nine are dodecasyllables and the last three decapentasyllables."
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: 234 Secondary M. Tomadaki, Emilie M. 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	12
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Maria Tomadaki
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