Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34672

	καλ(ῶς) ἀπιστεῖς· μᾶλλον \| εἰς νοῦν εἰ λάβης· \|
	βυζαντί(ων) ναύσταθμον \| ὡς νῦν εὑρήθη· \|
	πρὸ(ς) δυσάριθμα \| καὶ δυσέμβολα σκάφη· \|
	τὰ τῶν ἰταλῶν, \| μὴ δὲ δὶς δέκα φέρ(ων):

Type(s)	[34669] Καλῶς ἀπιστεῖς· μᾶλλον εἰς νοῦν εἰ λάβῃς (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1203
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975]
Place in Manuscript	f. 82v
Person(s)	Scribe Niketas Choniates (1155 - 1217) - VGH: 337.E - PBW: Niketas/25001/
Palaeographical information	Written by a later hand in the lower margin (hand 3, cf. Mazzucchi (1995)). Mazzucchi (1995: 254-255) identifies this hand as Niketas Choniates. 3 δυσάριθμα ] -α ex -ον corr. eadem manus
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca historica 2.5.6. It addresses the author of a previous annotation written in the left margin of this passage: "σημείωσαι τί φησὶν ὁ παρὼν ἱστορικὸς περὶ τῶν μακρῶν νηῶν τῶν ἐξελθουσῶν ἀπὸ λιμένος ἑνὸς τῆς Σικελίας· ὅπερ τέως ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ ἄπιστον". The epigram refers to the arrival of the fleet of the Crusaders to Constantinople in June 1203.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Konstantinoupolis
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.130/0086
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 41-42 J. Bértola 2024, An Unedited Cycle of Byzantine Verse Scholia on Herodotus in the Light of Twelfth-Century Verse Scholia on Ancient Historians, in B. van den Berg, N. Zagklas (eds.), Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204). New Texts, New Approaches, Cambridge, 339-365: 352-353 C. Mazzucchi 1995, Leggere i classici durante la catastrofe (Costantinopoli, maggio-agosto 1203): le note marginali al Diodoro Siculo Vaticano gr. 130. Parte seconda: i dodecasillabi della terza mano e la personalità del loro autore, Aevum, 69(1), 200-258: 207 (image: plate II), 208 Secondary A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 87-88
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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