Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35160

	θρίαμβος ὦδε (καὶ) χαρ(ᾶς) \| μεστὴ πόλις·
	πάγ\|γλωσσος ὕμνος· καὶ \| μύρ(ων) πλείστη χύσ(ις)· \|
	(καὶ) χρυσοϋφ(ῶν) κ(α)τ(ὰ) γ(ῆς) \| στρῶσ(ις) πέπλων· \|
	(καὶ) χιονώδ(ης) ἱππικὴ \| συστοιχία,
	καλλίτριχος \| πίσσυρος ἐκφέρει δίφρον· \|
	εἰς ὃν βασιλ(εὺς) ἀναβι\|βάζει μέγ(ας)·
	τ(ὴν) τ(ῆς) \| θεομήτ(ο)ρος θεί(αν) εἰκόνα· \|
	ἐφ’ ἧ γεγηθ(ὼς) (καὶ) πεποιθ(ὼς) \| ἐξόχ(ως),
	ὡς συστρατη\|γέτιδα γράφει τ(ὰς) νίκ(ας)· \|
	ἧς (καὶ) προῆγε στ(αυ)ρικ(ὸν) \| σκῆπτρον ἔχων· \|
	ποσὶ βαδίζων ξύν τε \| συγκλήτω πάση· \|
	τοιοῦτος ὁ θρίαμβος \| ἔνθεος ξένος:-

Type(s)	[33648] Θρίαμβος ὦδε καὶ χαρᾶς μεστὴ πόλις (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th-14th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 11r
Palaeographical information	Written in the right margin by a hand working in a later stage with respect to the main text, in a darker ink and a smaller script. This hand is responsible for many of the marginalia and corrections ans additions to the main text (cf. Bértola (2021: 941)). The epigram is surrounded by a light red rectangular frame.
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 18.78-19.2.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/ Konstantinoupolis Theotokos Triumph
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: 940, 976-977 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 102, 135-136
Number of verses	12
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Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of Julián Bértola. 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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