Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 26440
(formerly occ/10499)

+ τριαντάριθμος· οὐρανοδρόμος κλίμαξ·
(...) οὐ(ρα)νὸν φέρουσα· τοὺς βροτοὺς βάσις
Type(s) [2107] Τριαντάριθμος οὐρανοδρόμος κλίμαξ (3 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 1001-1025
Manuscript JERUSALEM - Patriarchike Bibliotheke - Hagiou Saba 363 [1001-1025]
Place in Manuscript f. 156r
Palaeographical information The epigram is followed by an ornamented frame, which may have been added at a later stage, hidding the third line of the type. In the bottom margin of the folio, a note by a later hand reads as follows: 'μ(ηνὶ) μαίῳ (...) 'ιδ ἔ(τι) ͵ςψξδ', pointing to year 1256.
Contextual information The epigram is written at the end of John Klimax' Ladder.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Subject(s)
Image source(s) https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00279396042-jo/?sp=159
Number of verses 2
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Transcriber(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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