Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34429

+ ὀρεστιάδος εὐτελοῦς (...) οἰκονόµου
(...) διακόνου τῆς αὐτῆς ὀλβί(ας) ἐκκλησί(...),
τοὐπώνυμον κατακαλὼν τὴν κλῆσιν ἰω(άνν)ου
πόθου κρατίστου πόνημα τῶ θείω στεφηφόρω·
παλαιολόγω τῶ στερρῶ (καὶ) τῶ χαριτωνύμω·
τῶ χάρισι νικήσαντι τῶν θαλασσῶν πελάγη
τοῦ ποιμενάρχου προσταγαῖς τοῦ θείου τετυγμ(έν)ον
ὀρεστιάδος τοῦ λαμπροῦ καὶ ξένου πολυκάρπου +
Type(s) [34428] Ὀρεστιάδος εὐτελοῦς ἀξίαν οἰκονόµου (8 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 15th c.
Manuscript FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 8, Cod. 23 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 123r
Contextual information The epigram precedes a long encomiastic poem by Ioannes Katakalon on the emperor John V Palaiologos, commissioned by Polykarpos, the metropolitan of Hadrianopolis.
Metre(s) Decapentasyllable
Genre(s)
Subject(s)
Image source(s) http://mss.bmlonline.it/s.aspx?Id=AWODkFofI1A4r7GxL9mX&c=Introductio%20in%20placita%20theologorum%20incerti%20auctoris#/oro/253
Bibliography

Primary

A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 374

Secondary

M. Bazzani 2024, Poetry from the Provinces: John Katakalon’s Encomium of Emperor John V Palaiologos, in K. Kubina (ed.), Poetry in Late Byzantium, Leiden, 168-190: 170
Number of verses 8
Acknowledgements Information on the occurrence courtesy of Krystina Kubina.

Creator(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Transcriber(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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