Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35145

	τέτρωρον ἄναξ ἡ \| τετρακτὺς τῶν τέ\|κνων·
	οἷς ἀν(...)\|βαίνων (καὶ) θ(εο)ῦ θάρρει τρέχων;
	πατεῖν προηροῦ τὴν τετράκλιμον κτίσιν:-

Type(s)	[33641] Τέτρωρον, ἄναξ, ἡ τετρακτὺς τῶν τέκνων (3 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1301-1350
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350]
Place in Manuscript	f. 9r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink by the main scribe in the right and lower margins.
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 16.25-31.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Alexios Komnenos (1106 - 1142) - PBW: Alexios/103/ Andronikos Komnenos (1108 - 1142) - PBW: Andronikos/109/ Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/ Isaakios Komnenos (12th c.) - PBW: Isaakios/103/ Manouel I Komnenos (28/11/1118 - 24/09/1180) - PBW: Manuel/1/
Image source(s)	https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_7071358
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: 943, 975 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 104, 134
Number of verses	3
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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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