Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 33799

	+ χρόνω λυθεῖσαν τὴν παροῦσαν πυκτίδα,
	φθοράν τε παθεῖν κινδυνεύουσαν φίλ(?), \|
	ὡς μηκέτ’ εἶναι μὴ δὲ κεκλῆσθαι βίβλον·
	τῆ συνδετικῆ τεχνίτου χειρουργία, \|
	τέχνης τε λοιπῆς ποικίλη τεχνουργία,
	ὁ ποιμενάρχης αἰνιτ(ῶν) συνδεῖ πάλ(ιν) \|
	καὶ τὴν πρὶν εὐπρέπειαν αὐτῆ παρέχει·
	(ὡς) ἀναγινώσκοιτο πᾶσι ῥαδίως +

Type(s)	[33795] Χρόνῳ λυθεῖσαν τὴν παροῦσαν πυκτίδα (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350]
Place in Manuscript	f. 324v
Palaeographical information	The book epigram is copied in a piece of parchment inserted at the end of a paper manuscript, by a hand different from any other in the manuscript.
Contextual information	The mention of Ainos in this book epigram further supports the attribution of a cycle of verse scholia in this and other related manuscripts to Ephraim of Ainos.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram Reader-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ephraim of Ainos < Thrace (13th c. - 14th c.) - PLP: III.6408 - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PMBZ:
Image source(s)	http://data.onb.ac.at/rep/10007015
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 933-934 (image: plate 1), 946, 991 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 157 J. Bértola, On Restored Manuscripts and Fulfilled Oracles: Two Book Epigrams on Niketas Choniates’ ‘History’ (posted on: 2023-04-04). J. Van Dieten 1962, Wurden aus dem Codex Vindobonensis Historicus Graecus 53 fünf Miniaturen entfernt?, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 55, 224-234: 224
Number of verses	8
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Julián Bértola - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: Transcriber(s) Julián Bértola - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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