Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35195

	ἐπανασώζει τ(ὴν) \| πόλ(ιν) κασταμόνα \|
	ἕλλησιν ἄναξ, πρὸς \| δὲ πορθεῖ κ(αὶ) γά\|γγραν·

Type(s)	[33653] Ἐπανασώζει τὴν πόλιν Κασταμόνα (2 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1423-1450
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 137 [14th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 155v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the left margin, probably by the fourth hand responsible for writing part of this manuscript (cf. Bértola (2021: 947-948)).
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 20.23-25.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10037986d/f311.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: 947, 977 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 107, 137
Number of verses	2
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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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