Occurrence 28657

Type(s) [28658] Βοτανείατου οἰκέτου Βασιλείου (1 verse)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 13th c.
Manuscript PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 701 [9th-10th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 142v
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Scribe
Basileios Botaneiates (13th c.)
Palaeographical information The main text of the codex was transcribed in the 9th-10th c. The epigram was added by a 13th-century (?) user of the manuscript, together with three other epigrams present on the same page. Two of them mention his name, Basileios, while this one provides the name in full and, written at the end of the page, serves as a sort of subscription. The epigram is written in one line.

The script appears to be under the influence of the Fettaugenmode. Heart-shaped betas are especially conspicuous. As the epigram is located in the end of the page, the size of the handwriting is smaller than in two epigrams the same hand wrote on the same page above (Occurrences 28656 and 28660) but is the same in the epigram immediately preceding it, Occurrence 28668.
Contextual information The epigram is copied in a blank verso, while the recto of the same spread contains the beginning of John Chrysostom's In Ioannem. The epigram appears among other short texts added by the same and by other three-four hands (prayers; beginning of a hymn; a paraphrase of the beginning of Chrysostom's text starting in the next page). The epigram is written directly after another one by the same hand (Occurrence 28668), almost as if a part of the same poem.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s) Scribe-related epigram
Image source(s) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10723979k/f298.item
Number of verses 1
Acknowledgements Information on the occurrence courtesy of Georgi Parpulov.

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