Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35102

	ἔπτης βασιλεῦ ὡς \| ταχινὸς ἱέραξ, \|
	κἀπὶ κορυφὰς τῶν \| ὀρῶν ἡλιβάτ(ους)· \|
	αἷς ἐστὶ τεῖχος ἱεροκο\|κορυφίτου·

Type(s)	[33631] Ἔπτης, βασιλεῦ, ὡς ταχινὸς ἱέραξ (3 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	15th c.
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 6v
Palaeographical information	Written in the left margin, "by the most recent third hand (15th century)" (Bértola (2021: 950-951)).
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 13.36-38.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/
Image source(s)	https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_7205879
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: 950, 974 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 109, 132
Number of verses	3
Related occurrence(s)	[35104] ἔπτης βασιλεῦ, \| ὡς ταχινὸς ἱέραξ [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 9) (3 verses) (3/3) [35101] ἔπτης βασιλεῦ ὡς ταχινὸς ἱέραξ [1423-1450] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 137 [14th-15th c.] (f. 153v) (3 verses) (3/3) [35103] ἔπτης βασι\|λεῦ, ὡς τα\|χινὸς ἱέ-\|ραξ [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 6v) (3 verses) (3/3) [35099] ἔπτης βασιλεῦ ὡς \| ταχινὸς ἱέραξ [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 7v) (3 verses) (3/3) [35100] ἔπτης βασιλεῦ (ὡς) \| ταχινὸ(ς) ἱέραξ [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 8r) (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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