Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 27072
(formerly occ/11146)

	: ἴμ’ ἐρατώ μουσάων ἱρῶν εἶδος ἀρίστη·
	ἀθάνατος δὲ νέων, ὅστις ἐμοῦ γ’ ἐράοι:

Type(s)	[7415] Εἴμ’ Ἐρατὼ Μουσάων ἱρῶν εἶδος ἀρίστη (2 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1480
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1359 [1480]
Place in Manuscript	f. 276v
Person(s)	Scribe Demetrios Raoul Kabakes (15th c.) - RGK: I.95, II.128e, III.162 - VGH: 102.A, 295.B - PLP: V.10016
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink, in the lower margin.
Contextual information	Written at the beginning of the sixth book of Herodotus' History, named after the Muse. ἐρατώ is written in the upper margin, also in red ink.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Nine Muses
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1359.pt.2/48
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola, A. Ellis 2024, The Lost Poems on the Muses by Theodoros Gazes, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS), 64(3), 480-508: 507
Number of verses	2
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Julián Bértola Transcriber(s) Julián Bértola Contributor(s) 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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