Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35114

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	μάχη μεγίστη \| σκυθικοῦ δεινῆς \| φύλου·
	κ(αὶ) πα\|μμεγίστου χαρι\|τωνύμου μόνου: \|
	μυριονίκου, δε\|σπότου βασιλέως:

Type(s)	[33633] Μάχη μεγίστη Σκυθικοῦ δεινοῦ φύλου (3 verses)
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. 7r
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 14.62-15.70.
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/btv1b55013502t/f20.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, 974 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 112, 132-133
Number of verses	3
Related occurrence(s)	[35115] μάχη μεγίστη \| σκυθικοῦ δεινοῦ \| φύλου [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 10) (3 verses) (3/3) [35113] μάχη μεγίστη σκυ\|θικοῦ δεινοῦ φύλου [1423-1450] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 137 [14th-15th c.] (f. 154r) (3 verses) (3/3) [35111] μάχη μεγίστη \| σκυθικοῦ δεινοῦ \| φύλου [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 8r) (3 verses) (3/3) [35112] μάχη μεγίστη σκυ\|θικοῦ δεινοῦ φύλου [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 8v) (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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