Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35163

	θρίαμβος ὦδε καὶ \| χαρᾶς μεστῆ πόλις \|
	πάγγλωσσαν ὕμνος \| κ(αὶ) μύρ(ων) πλείστων χύ\|σις·
	κ(αὶ) χρυσῶ ὑ\|φῶν κ(ατὰ) γῆς στρῶ\|σιν πέπλων·
	κ(αὶ) \| χιονώδης ἱππικὴ \| συστοιχία·
	κα\|λλίτριχος πίσσυ\|ρος ἐκφέρει δί\|φρον·
	εἰς ὃν βα\|σιλεὺς ἀναβι\|βάζει μέγας·
	τὴν τῆς θεομήτορος θείαν εἰκόνα·
	ἐφ’ ᾗ γεγηθὼς κ(αὶ) πεποιθὼς ἐξόχως·
	συστρατη\|γέτιδι, γράφει τὰς νίκας·
	ἧν κ(αὶ) προῆγε στ(αυ)ρικὸν σκῆπτρον ἔχων·
	ποσὶ βαδίζων ξύν τε συγκλήτῳ \| πάσῃ·
	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	16th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 8v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the left and lower margins by the main scribe (hand 1, cf. Bértola (2021: 953)).
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://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f23.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, 976-977 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 112, 135-136
Number of verses	12
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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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