Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34194

εὖγε βασιλεῦ | τ(ῆς) ἄγαν εὐβου|λί(ας):-

Type(s)	[33598] Εὖγε, βασιλεῦ, τῆς ἄγαν εὐβουλίας (1 verse)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1301-1350
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350]
Place in Manuscript	f. 4v
Palaeographical information	The poem was copied in red ink by the main scribe in the left margin.
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 7.53-56. It is preceded by the abbreviation for ση(μείωσαι). Below, in the external margin, the same scribe also copied in red: γρ(άφετ)αι, μεθοδεί(αις):- and ὅρα:- ση(μείωσαι) on Niketas Choniates' History 7.66-68.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Alexios I Komnenos (1057 - 15/08/1118) - PBW: Alexios/1/
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: 943, 972 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 104, 129
Number of verses	1
Related occurrence(s)	[34786] εὖγε βασιλεῦ, \| τῆς ἄγαν εὐβουλί(ας) [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 4) (1 verse) (1/1) [34744] εὖγε βασιλεῦ τ(ῆς) \| ἄγαν εὐβουλίας [1423-1450] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 137 [14th-15th c.] (f. 152r) (1 verse) (1/1) [34787] εὖγε βασι\|λεῦ τῆς ἄγαν \| εὐβουλί(ας) [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 3v) (1 verse) (1/1) [34785] εὖγε βασιλεῦ \| τ(ῆς) ἄγαν εὐβουλί(ας) [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 4r) (1 verse) (1/1) [34745] εὖγε βασιλεῦ \| τ(ῆς) ἄγ(αν) εὐβουλί(ας) [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 3r) (1 verse) (1/1)
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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