Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 34931

	σωτῆρα σωζόπολ(ις) αὐσονοκράτην,
	ὁρἀ κομνην(ὸν) τὸν μέγ(αν) ἰω(άνν)(ην).

Type(s)	[33629] Σωτῆρα Σωζόπολις Αὐσονοκράτην (2 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. 153v
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 13.31-36. It is preceded by a signe-de-renvoi, which links these verses to the relevant passage in the main text.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10037986d/f307.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, 949, 973 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 107, 132
Number of verses	2
Related occurrence(s)	[34933] σ(ωτῆ)ρα· σωζόπολ(ιν) \| αὐσονοκράτην [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 9) (2 verses) (2/2) [34929] σωτῆρα σωζόπολ(ις) \| αὐσονοκράτην [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 7r) (2 verses) (2/2) [34930] σ(ωτῆ)ρα· σωζόπ(ο)λ(ιν) \| αὐσονοκράτην [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 7v) (2 verses) (2/2) [34932] σωτῆρα σωζόπολ(ις) \| αὐσονοκράτην [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 6v) (2 verses) (2/2)
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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