Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34918

σεμνὴ βασιλὶς | ὡς σοφ(ὸν) φράζεις | ἔπος:

Type(s)	[33625] Σεμνὴ βασιλὶς, ὡς σοφὸν φράζεις ἔπος (1 verse)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th-14th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 6v
Palaeographical information	Written in the left margin by a hand working in a later stage with respect to the main text, in a darker ink and a smaller script. This hand is responsible for many of the marginalia and corrections ans additions to the main text (cf. Bértola (2021: 941)). The epigram is surrounded by a light red rectangular frame.
Contextual information	The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 12.86-89.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Eirene Doukaina (1066 - 19/02/1138) - PBW: Eirene/61/
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: 940, 973 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 102, 131
Number of verses	1
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Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of Julián Bértola. 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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