Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34742

	ἀλέξιε κράτιστε κομνηνιάδη,
	ἀνακτορικ(ῶς) ἐμβριμᾶ τῆ ξυλέχω,
	(καὶ) σῶ γόν(...) (...) κράτο(ς) ἐνδίκως νέμεις:

Type(s)	[33596] Ἀλέξιε κράτιστε Κομνηνιάδη (3 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 lower 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 5.10-17. The poem is preceded by another note by the same scribe: '+ ση(μείωσαι) ὅρα λόγ(ους) βασιλ(ικούς):'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Alexios I Komnenos (1057 - 15/08/1118) - PBW: Alexios/1/ Eirene Doukaina (1066 - 19/02/1138) - PBW: Eirene/61/ Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/
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, 971 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 107, 129
Number of verses	3
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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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