Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34740

	στίχ(οι)

	θεληματαίνεις οἷς \| παραβλέπεις φύσιν, \|
	ἄνασσα καλὴ, κἂν \| δοκεῖς περ λανθάνειν:

Type(s)	[33594] Θεληματαίνεις οἷς παραβλέπεις φύσιν (2 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1423-1450
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 137 [14th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 151v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the left margin, probably by the fourth hand responsible for writing part of this manuscript (cf. Bértola (2021: 947-948)).
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 5.90-1.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Eirene Doukaina (1066 - 19/02/1138) - PBW: Eirene/61/
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10037986d/f303.item
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: 947, 949, 971 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 107, 128-129
Number of verses	2
Related occurrence(s)	[34779] θεληματαίνεις \| οἷς παραβλέπεις \| φύσιν [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 3) (2 verses) (2/2) [34778] θεληματαί\|ν(εις) οἷς παραβλέ\|π(εις) φύσιν [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 2v) (2 verses) (2/2) [34765] θεληματαίνεις \| οἷς παραβλέπεις \| φύσιν [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 3r) (2 verses) (2/2) [34192] θεληματαίν(εις) \|οἷς παραβλέπ(εις) \| φύσ(ιν) [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 3r) (2 verses) (2/2) [34741] θεληματαίνεις οἷς παραβλέπεις φύσιν [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 1v) (2 verses) (2/2)
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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