Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22196
(formerly occ/6073)

	+ τυφλώττω κἀγὼ τῆ τέχνη τ(ῶν) γραμμάτων;
	εὐτυχ(ῶς) εὐμοίρησα καντιβολαίου·
	λοιπ(ὸν) σύγγνωτε καὶ συγχωρήσατέ μοι·
	οἱ τώδε τυγχάνοντες τῶ ὑακίνθω: +

Type(s)	[5234] Τυφλώττω κἀγὼ τῇ τέχνῃ τῶν γραμμάτων (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - theol. gr. 140 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 129r
Person(s)	Scribe Hyakinthos (14th c.)
Contextual information	The poem is the first in a series of three book epigrams, written at the end of John Klimax' Liber ad pastorem.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Hyakinthos (14th c.)
Image source(s)	https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_9307521&order=1&view=SINGLE
Bibliography	Primary J. Bick, 1920, Die Schreiber der Wiener griechischen Handschriften, Vienna: 40 Secondary H. Hunger, O. Kresten, C. Hannick, 1984, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Codices Theologici 101-200 (vol. 3.2), Vienna: 148
Number of verses	4
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Dimitrios Skrekas, 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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