Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34749

	ἀξούχ ἀγαθὲ, πρὸ(ς) \| ψυχὴν θείαν λέγεις· \|
	ἣ συμπερατοῖ, σὰς \| καλὰς παρεμφάσεις· \|
	ὄντως τὸ λοιπὸν εὐγεν(ής) \| σὺ τυγχάνεις,
	κἂν \| ἀλλοεθνοῦς ἐκ γέ\|νους ἀλλ’ οὐ τρόπου:

Type(s)	[33621] Ἀξοὺχ ἀγαθὲ, πρὸς ψυχὴν θείαν λέγεις (4 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. 153r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the right 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 11.70-82.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/ John Axouch - PBW: Ioannes/293/ (domestikos, sebastos)
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10037986d/f306.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, 972 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 107, 130
Number of verses	4
Related occurrence(s)	[34913] ἀξοὺχ ἀγαθὲ πρὸ(ς) \| ψυχὴν θείαν λέγεις [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 8) (4 verses) (4/4) [34912] ἀξοὺχ, ἀγαθὲ, πρὸ(ς) ψυ\|χην θείαν, λέ\|γεις [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 5v) (4 verses) (4/4) [34911] ἀξοὺχ ἀγαθὲ πρὸ(ς) ψυχὴν θείαν λέγεις [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 6r) (4 verses) (4/4) [34206] ἀξοὺχ ἀγαθὲ, \| πρὸς ψυχὴν θεί(αν), \| λέγεις [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 6v) (4 verses) (4/4) [34750] ἀξοὺχ ἀγαθὲ πρὸς ψυχ(ὴν) θεί(αν) λέγεις [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 5r) (4 verses) (4/4)
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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