Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22126
(formerly occ/5998)

	ἐπίγραμμα εἰς τὸ ὁμηρικ(ὴν) βίβλ(ον) θεοδ(ώ)ρ(ου) γαζῆ ἀνδρὸ(ς) σοφοῦ

	εἰμὶ σμυρναίοιο ἀοιδοῦ δέλτος ὁμήρου
	κτῆμα δὲ δῖος ἀνὴρ βησσαρίων με ἔχει·
	ἀλλ’ ὦ ζεῦ ἄνα βησσαριωνος κήδεο ἀνδρός
	σειρὴν ὃς τελέθει ἑλλάδος ἡδυτάτη·
	ἡδὺ ῥόδον τὲ ἴον τέ γε. ἡδὺ κρίνον τὲ κρόκος τε
	ἀλλ’ ὅδε ἄνθος ἔφυ (…) ἥδου ἐκπρεπέ(ως)
	μουσῶν ἐν λειμῶνι ὃς ἄνθεα μυρία ἴσχει
	πανθ’ ὅ γε κοσμεῖ ὧ κόσμος ἐκεῖνα πέλει·
	μοίραις δὴ λέγε πρόφρων νήθειν ἀνδρὶ τὰ λῶστα
	ἐλκούσας χρυσῆς ἐκ λῖνα εἰλακάτης
	χρύσεα πάντ’ ἐκ μοιρῶν εἴη ἀνδρὶ χρυσέω·
	αἱ δ᾽ ὧραι βιοτῆς πλεῖστα διδοῖεν ἔτη:-

Type(s)	[5288] Εἰμὶ Σμυρναίοιο ἀοιδοῦ δέλτος Ὁμήρου (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	15th c.
Manuscript	VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 148 (coll. 488) [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. IIr
Person(s)	Scribe Basileios Bessarion (1399-1400 - 18/11/1472) - RGK: I.41, II.61, III.77 - VGH: 59.E - PLP: II.2707 (kardinalios)
Palaeographical information	Written in to columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram is preceded by two more poems on f. Iv. According to Mioni (1981: 209), ff. I-II were taken from the Marc. gr. 456, which contains the Iliad and the Odyssey. In its original context the poem used to function as a book epigram.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	Basileios Bessarion (1399-1400 - 18/11/1472) - RGK: I.41, II.61, III.77 - VGH: 59.E - PLP: II.2707 (kardinalios) Homer (8th c. BC) Nine Muses Sirens Zeus
Bibliography	Primary E. Mioni, 1981, Bibliothecae Divi Marci Venetiarum codices Graeci manuscripti. Thesaurus Antiquus. Codices 1-299 (vol. 1), Rome: 209
Number of verses	12
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, 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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