Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22956
(formerly occ/6847)

	+εἴ σε ποθὴ κατέχει, κλεινοῦ πτολεμαίου βίβλον
	ἐκμαθέειν ἀνέρος, οὗ δὴ μέγα ἔπλετο κῦδος
	ἀμφὶ θεωρίης ἄστρων οὐρανιώνων,
	μὴ σύ γε τήνδε παραδραμέειν ἐθελήσειας βίβλον.+

Type(s)	[5630] Εἴ σε ποθὴ κατέχει, κλεινοῦ Πτολεμαίου βίβλον (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1401-1450
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - suppl. gr. 75 [1401-1450]
Place in Manuscript	f. 234r
Palaeographical information	The text is written in the top of f. 234r in two columns and is read horizontally.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Claudius Ptolemy (2nd c.)
Comment	The Epigram precedes the text of the Commentary on Ptolemy's work on Mathematics.
Image source(s)	http://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_2743137
Bibliography	Primary H. Hunger, 1969, Johannes Chortasmenos (ca. 1370- ca.1436/37). Briefe, Gedichte und kleine Schriften. Einleitung, Regesten, Prosopographie, Text, Wien: 41 H. Hunger, C. Hannick, 1994, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Supplementum Graecum (vol. 4), Vienna: 127-128
Number of verses	4
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Lotte van Olmen The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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Last modified: 2019-08-14.