Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34662

	ὁλικῶς ὑμνῶ τὴν παναίτιον φύσιν,
	ἕλληνα κοὐ βάρβαρον γεννήσασαν με·
	ἦ γὰρ ἂν ἀπέθνησκον χωλὸς ὢν ἄρτι,
	ἐξ ἀλόγου κρίσεως βαρβαρωτάτης.

Type(s)	[34660] Ὁλικῶς ὑμνῶ τὴν παναίτιον φύσιν (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1476-1525
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975]
Place in Manuscript	f. 147v
Palaeographical information	Written by a later hand in the left margin (hand 9, cf. Mazzucchi (1994)).
Contextual information	The verse is written next to and comments on Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca historica 3.33.6.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.130/0151
Bibliography	Primary C. Mazzucchi 1994, Leggere i classici durante la catastrofe (Costantinopoli, maggio-agosto 1203): le note marginali al Diodoro Siculo Vaticano gr. 130. Parte prima: stratigrafia, Aevum, 68(1), 164-218: 213 (image: plate VI(c)), 218 Secondary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 39, n. 35
Number of verses	4
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Transcriber(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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