Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34791

σοφὴ γυναικῶν, | ἐκ λύπης ταῦτα | λέγεις:-

Type(s)	[33603] Σοφὴ γυναικῶν, ἐκ λύπης ταῦτα λέγεις (1 verse)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	16th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 5r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the right margin by the main scribe (hand 1, cf. Bértola (2021: 953)).
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 10.52-56. The poem is preceded by another note by the same scribe: 'ση(μείωσαι): \| ὅ\|ρ\|α:'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Anna Komnene (1083 - 1153-1154) - PBW: Anna/62/ - PLP: I.1001
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f16.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: 953, 972 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 112, 130
Number of verses	1
Related occurrence(s)	[34910] Σοφὴ γυναικῶν, ἐκ λύπης ταῦτα λέγεις [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 7) (1 verse) (1/1) [34747] σοφὴ γυναικῶν \| ἐκ λύπης ταῦτα λέγ(εις) [1423-1450] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 137 [14th-15th c.] (f. 153r) (1 verse) (1/1) [34790] σοφὴ γυναικ(ῶν) ἐκ λύπ(ης) ταῦτα \| λέγεις [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 6r) (1 verse) (1/1) [34205] σοφὴ γυναικῶν, \| ἐκ λύπ(ης) ταῦτα \| λέγεις [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 6v) (1 verse) (1/1) [34748] σοφὴ γυναικ(ῶν) ἐκ \| λύπης ταῦτα λέγεις [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 5r) (1 verse) (1/1)
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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