Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22447
(formerly occ/6331)

	Τῆς μουσικῆς ἔλεξε Βακχεῖος Γέρων
	τόνους, τρόπους, μέλη τε καὶ συμφωνίας.
	τούτῳ συνῳδὰ Διονύσιος γράφων
	τὸν παμμέγιστον δεσπότην Κωνσταντῖνον
	σοφὸν ἐραστὴν δείκνυσι τεχνημάτων.
	τὸν τῶν ἁπάντων γὰρ σοφῶν παιδευμάτων
	ἐφευρετήν τε καὶ δότην πεφηνότα
	ταύτης προσῆκεν οὐδαμῶς εἶναι ξένον.

Type(s)	[4372] Τῆς μουσικῆς ἔλεξε Βακχεῖος γέρων (8 verses)
Text source	A. Cameron 1984, Bacchius, Dionysius, and Constantine, Phoenix, 38, 256-260: 256
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1176-1200
Manuscript	VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. app. VI 10 [1151-1200]
Place in Manuscript	f. 205r
Person(s)	Patron Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos (17/05/905-18/05/905 - 09/11/959) - PBW: Konstantinos/7/ - PMBZ: 25888: "Personenkennziffer: 23734"
Contextual information	Written at the end of Bacchius' Isagoge Artis Musicae.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	Bakcheios Geron (3rd-4th c.) Konstantinos VII Porphyrogennetos (17/05/905-18/05/905 - 09/11/959) - PBW: Konstantinos/7/ - PMBZ: 25888: "Personenkennziffer: 23734"
Bibliography	Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2003, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 1), Vienna: 354 E. Mioni, 1960, Bibliothecae Divi Marci Venetiarum codices Graeci manuscripti. Codices qui in sextam, septimam atque octavam classem includuntur continens (vol. 2), Rome: 13 A. Németh, 2018, The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past, Cambridge: 62, n. 24
Number of verses	8
Related occurrence(s)	[21138] τῆς μουσικῆς ἔλεξε βακχεῖος γέρων. [15th c.] MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 215 [15th c.] (f. 457r) (3 verses) (2/8) [20717] Τῆς μουσικῆς ἔλεξε Βακχεῖος γέρων [15th c.] SALAMANCA - Biblioteca Universitaria 2748 (Palacio 3208) [15th c.] (f. 134r) (3 verses) (2/8)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, 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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