Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23083
(formerly occ/6975)

βίβλος πέφυκα πρὸς λόγους γηροτρόφος·
γηρῶσα τῶ νῶ καὶ νεάζουσα πάλιν·
τῶν γραμμάτων καίνισιν ἐκ πολλαχόθεν·
τοίνυν πρὸς ἔνδον ἐισφέρω τῶν ἐγκάτων,
βίους ἀνάκτων τῆς νέας ῥωμαΐδος·
ῥώμης παλαιτάτης τε καὶ τριπεμπέλω·
πολλῶν τε πάντ(ων) τῶν βεβασιλευκότων·
πέρσαις τε, χαλδαίοις τε καὶ ἀσσυρίοις·
πόνημα καὶ γὰρ πανσόφου κωνσταντίνου·
πέλω μανασσῆ τοῦ γραμματικωτάτου:+
Type(s) [3720] Βίβλος πέφυκα πρὸς λόγους γηροτρόφους (18 verses)
Text source DBBE
Text status Text completely known
Date 14th-15th c.
Manuscript BERN - Burgerbibliothek B 48 [14th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 141r
Contextual information This is the first of the two colophons that follow the 'Breviarium Chronicum'.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s) Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s) Constantine Manasses (1130-1187) - PBW: Konstantinos/302/
Image source(s) CDrom file 2 Album palaeographicum.pdf
Bibliography

Primary

P. Andrist, 2007, Les manuscrits grecs conservés à la Bibliothèque de la Bourgeoisie de Berne-Burgerbibliothek Bern, Zurich: 112

Secondary

O. Lampsidis 1985-1986, Ἐπώνυμοι γραφεῖς κωδίκων τῆς Χρονικῆς Συνόψεως Κωνσταντίνου τοῦ Μανασσῆ, Πελοποννησιακὰ, 16, 43-53: 46
Number of verses 10
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Dimitrios Skrekas
Contributor(s)
Rachele Ricceri, Kristoffel Demoen

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