Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35147

	τέτρωρον ἄ\|ναξ ἡ τετρα\|κτὺς τῶν τέ-\|κνων·
	οἷς ἂν \| βαίνων κ(αὶ) θ(εο)ῦ \| θάρρει τρέχων· \|
	πατεῖν προῃροῦ \| τ(ὴν) 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	16th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 8r
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 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://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f22.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, 975 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 112, 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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