Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23928
(formerly occ/7879)

	Δέχνοισο τοῖον δῶρον, ἀφ’ ἡμετέροις πόνοις·
	ὀλβιήδωρε, ἄνασσα κυδίστη ἀριστοτόκεια·
	νυὲ χαριτοπρόσωπε, μεγασθενέ(ων) βασιλέων·
	ἣν πλέ(ον) ἀστράπτουσαν, εὐβλεφάροις σελήνης·
	εἰς γάμ(ον) ὄλβιον ἤρατο, νυμφιδίοις ἐπὶ λέκτροις·
	πορφυρόπαις γόνος αὐσονάνακτος, καρτερόχειρ(ος)·
	ἀνδρόνικος μεγάθυμος, εὐμελίης πολεμιστής·
	ὦ γέρα πρῶτα σεβαστοκρατορίης οἶμα φυτεύσ(ας)·
	εἰς τοίνυν λυκαβάντ(ας), ἀπειρεσίους ἐλάσει(ας).

Type(s)	[3954] Δέχνυσο τοῖον δῶρον ἀφ’ ἡμετέροιο πόνοιο (9 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1251-1325
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2087 [1251-1325]
Place in Manuscript	f. 211r
Palaeographical information	Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Constantine Manasses' 'Compendium chronicum'.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	Andronikos Komnenos (1108 - 1142) - PBW: Andronikos/109/ Eirene Sebastokratorissa (12th c.) - PBW: Eirene/20115/
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10721981q/f228.item
Bibliography	Primary O. Lampsidis, 1996, Constantini Manassis Breviarium chronicum. Praefationem et textum continens (vol. 1), Athens: 4 Secondary I. Nilsson, 2021, Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium: the authorial voice of Constantine Manasses, Cambridge: 165, n. 119
Number of verses	9
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Rachele Ricceri Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Sien De Groot, 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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