Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35161

	θρίαμβο(ς) ὦδε, (καὶ) \| χαρᾶς μεστὴ πόλ(ις)· \|
	πάγγλωσσο(ς) ὕμνος \| (καὶ) μύρων πλείστη \| χύσις·
	(καὶ) χρυσο\|ϋφῶν κατὰ γῆς \| στρῶσιν πέπλων· \|
	(καὶ) χιονώδης ἱππικὴ \| συστοιχία·
	καλλί\|τριχο(ς) πίσσυρο(ς) ἐκ\|φέρει δίφρον·
	εἰς \| ὃν βασιλεὺς ἀναβιβάζει μέγ(ας);
	τὴν τ(ῆς) θεομήτορο(ς) θεί(αν) εἰκόνα·
	ἐφ’ ᾗ γεγηθ(ὼς) (καὶ) πεποιθ(ὼς) ἐξόχως;
	ὡς \| συστρατηγέτιδι, γράφει τ(ὰς) νίκας·
	ἧς (καὶ) προῆγε στ(αυ)ρικ(ὸν) σκῆπτρον ἔχων
	ποσὶ βαδίζων ξύν τε συγκλήτῳ πάσῃ·
	τοιοῦτο(ς) \| ὁ θρίαμβος· ἔνθεο(ς) 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	1301-1350
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350]
Place in Manuscript	f. 10r
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 18.78-19.2. It is preceded by the note 'ση(μείωσαι)'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/ Konstantinoupolis Theotokos Triumph
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, 976-977 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 104, 135-136
Number of verses	12
Related occurrence(s)	[35164] θρίαμβος ὧδε, (καὶ) \| χαρᾶς μεστὴ πόλις [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 13) (12 verses) (12/12) [35163] θρίαμβος ὦδε καὶ \| χαρᾶς μεστῆ πόλις [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 8v) (12 verses) (12/12) [35160] θρίαμβος ὦδε (καὶ) χαρ(ᾶς) \| μεστὴ πόλις [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 11r) (12 verses) (12/12) [35162] θρίαμβος ὦδε (καὶ) \| χαρᾶς μεστὴ πόλ(ις) [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 8v) (12 verses) (12/12)
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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