| Type(s) |
[7270] Ἐγώ, βασιλεῦ Ἀλέξανδρε γενν[αῖε]
(6 verses)
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| Text source |
DBBE
(Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
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| Text status |
Text completely known |
| Date |
14th c. |
| Manuscript |
VENICE - Istituto Ellenico di Studi Bizantini e Post-Bizantini 5 [14th c.]
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| Place in Manuscript |
f. 1r |
| Palaeographical information |
Written in red ink. |
| Contextual information |
The epigram accompanies a miniature depicting the patron of the manuscript, one of the Grand Komnenoi, as the title written above the miniature indicates: '+ ἐν χ(ριστ)ῶ τῶ θ(ε)ῶ πιστὸς βασιλεὺς καὶ αὐτοκράτ[ωρ] πάσης ἀνατ[ολῆς] καὶ π[ερατείας]'. Possibly this miniature faced a now missing portrait of Alexander the Great on f. 2, which may have been accompanied by an inscription in which he replies to the emperor (cf. Rhoby (2018: 357-359) and Trahoulia (2017: 175)). |
| Metre(s) |
Dodecasyllable
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| Genre(s) |
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| Subject(s) |
Alexander the Great of Pella < Central Macedonia < Greece (356 BC - 323 BC)
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| Image source(s) |
http://eib.xanthi.ilsp.gr/gr/showpic.asp?gotonumber=&vmagnification=500&picpath=0402_txt_01_nn5&curTable=manuscripts&curRecord=9999&vorder=6&vmode=next
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| Bibliography |
Primary
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A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 356-359, 687 (image: plate CXVIII)
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N. Trahoulia 2010, The Venice Alexander romance: pictorial narrative and the art of telling stories, in R. Macrides (ed.), History as Literature in Byzantium. Papers from the Fortieth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham, April 2007, Farnham, 145-165: 145
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N. Trahoulia 2017, The Alexander Romance, in V. Tsamakda (ed.), A Companion to Byzantine Illustrated Manuscripts, Boston, 169-182: 174-175
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| Number of verses |
5 |
| Acknowledgements |
The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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| Permalink |
https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/26746 |
