Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35196

	ἐπανασώζει τὴν πόλ(ιν) \| κασταμόνα,
	ἕλλησιν \| ἄναξ· πρὸς δὲ \| πορθεῖ (καὶ) γάγγραν.

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	15th c.
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 9v
Palaeographical information	Written in the left margin, "by the most recent third hand (15th century)" (Bértola (2021: 950-951)).
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://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_7205879
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: 950, 977 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 109, 137
Number of verses	2
Related occurrence(s)	[35198] ἐπανασώζει τ(ὴν) πόλιν \| κασταμόνα [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 14) (2 verses) (2/2) [35195] ἐπανασώζει τ(ὴν) \| πόλ(ιν) κασταμόνα [1423-1450] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 137 [14th-15th c.] (f. 155v) (2 verses) (2/2) [35197] ἐπανασώζει \| τὴν πόλιν κα\|σταμόνα [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 9v) (2 verses) (2/2) [35193] ἐπανασώζει τὴν πόλ(ιν) \| κασταμόνα [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 12r) (2 verses) (2/2) [35194] ἐπανασώζει τὴν πόλ(ιν) \| κασταμόνα [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 11r) (2 verses) (2/2)
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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