Type(s) |
[3072] Τέλος κλίμακος οὐρανοδρόμου βίβλου
(19 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 |
1282 |
Manuscript |
MANCHESTER - John Rylands University Library Gaster 1574 [1282]
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Place in Manuscript |
f. 345v |
Person(s) |
- Patron
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Iakobos (13th c.) - PLP: IV.7911 (kyros, pater)
- Scribe
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Ioasaph (13th c.) - RGK: I.207bis, II.284 - VGH: 217.A - PLP: IV.8899
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Palaeographical information |
The title and initials are written in red ink. |
Contextual information |
The epigram is written at the end of the 'Ladder' of John Klimax and precedes the treatise 'To the Shepherd'. |
Metre(s) |
Dodecasyllable
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Genre(s) |
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Subject(s) |
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Comment |
Turyn (1980: 30): "Verses 11 and 14 are metrically faulty".
The epigram has only 14 vv., in spite of its marginal note στίχοι ις (sixteen verses).
The first verse of this poem, lacking its last word, is written by a later hand in a sloppy way on the last folio, f. 377r. |
Bibliography |
Primary
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F. Euangelatou-Notara, 1984, Συλλογὴ χρονολογημένων σημειωμάτων ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων. 13ος αἰώνας, Athens: 116-117
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F. Euangelatou-Notara, 2000, Χορηγοί-κτήτορες-δωρητές σε σημειώματα κωδίκων. Παλαιολόγειοι χρόνοι, Athens: 182
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R. Meesters, R. Ricceri 2018, A Twelfth-Century Cycle of Four Poems on John Klimax. Editio princeps, in A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas (eds.), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Texts and Contexts, Turnhout, 285-386: 344-346
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R. Ricceri, R. Meesters 2022, A Metrical Colophon on John Klimax's Ladder of Divine Ascent, in F. Spingou (ed.), The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (vol. 2), Cambridge / New York, 1399-1407: 1402-1406
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A. Turyn, 1980, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain, Washington: 30
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Number of verses |
14 |
Related occurrence(s) |
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Acknowledgements |
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