Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34751

	ἔσπειρεν ἀξοὺχ, \| ἐς ψυχ(ῆς) ἐσθλῆς \| βάθο(ς)·
	ἥ δ’ εἰς \| ἑκατὸν, ἀνέ\|δωκε τὸν στάχυν, \|
	Χριστοῦ τὸν οἶκτον ἀτεχνῶς μιμουμένη.

Type(s)	[33623] Ἔσπειρεν Ἀξοὺχ ἐς ψυχῆς ἐσθλῆς βάθος (3 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1301-1350
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350]
Place in Manuscript	f. 7r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink by the main scribe in the right margin.
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 11.82-85.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/ Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) John Axouch - PBW: Ioannes/293/ (domestikos, sebastos)
Image source(s)	https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_7071358&order=1&view=SINGLE
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: 943, 973 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 104, 131
Number of verses	3
Related occurrence(s)	[34917] ἔσπειρεν ἀξοὺχ, ἐς \| ψυχῆς καλῆς βάθος [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 8) (3 verses) (3/3) [34752] ἔσπειρ(εν) ἀξοὺχ, εἰς \| ψυχῆς ἐσθλῆς βάθος [1423-1450] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 137 [14th-15th c.] (f. 153r) (3 verses) (3/3) [34916] ἔσπειρεν ἀ\|ξοὺχ, ἐς ψυχῆς \| ἐσθλῆς βάθος [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 5v) (3 verses) (3/3) [34914] ἔσπειρ(εν) ἀξοὺχ ἐς \| ψυχ(ῆς) ἐσθλ(ῆς) βάθος [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 6v) (3 verses) (3/3) [34753] ἔσπειρ(εν) ἀξοὺχ ἐς \| ψυχῆς ἐσθλῆς βάθος [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 5v) (3 verses) (3/3)
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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