Occurrence 34713
| Type(s) | [34710] Τὰ παιδία ποῦ· ποῦ δὲ καὶ σχῆµα µέγα (2 verses) |
| Text source | 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: 211 |
| Text status | Text completely known |
| Date | 1203 |
| Manuscript | VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975] |
| Place in Manuscript | f. 277r |
| Person(s) | |
| Palaeographical information | Written by a later hand in the right margin (hand 3, cf. Mazzucchi (1995)). Mazzucchi (1995: 254-255) identifies this hand as Niketas Choniates. Critical apparatus by Mazzucchi (1995: 211): 2 ταφὴν ] sub τ- scripserat θ |
| Contextual information | The epigram is written next to and comments on Diodorus Siculus' Bibliotheca historica 5.35.3. It does not seem to have a direct relation to the text it accompanies. Mazzucchi (1995: 242) suggests that Niketas Choniates was inspired to write these verses by the great fires in Constantinople in July-August 1203: "La sola ipotesi che io riesca a prospettare è che il nostro glossatore (...) fosse giunto al f. 277r dopo il 17/18 Iuglio, o il 19 agosto, allorché due terribili incendî devastarono Constantinopoli". |
| Metre(s) | Dodecasyllable |
| Genre(s) | Scribe-related epigram |
| Comment | Due to the bad quality of the online reproduction, Mazzucchi (1995: 211) has been kept as text source. |
| Image source(s) | https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.130/0280 |
| Bibliography | |
| Number of verses | 2 |
| Acknowledgements |
The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete. |
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Last modified: 2023-04-07.
