Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35233

	ἐδὲμ, βυζάντις, \| εὐφράτην ξένον \| βρύεις·
	τὸν χρυ\|σωδίνην κ(αὶ) χρυσο\|πλουτοβρύτην: \|
	ὃς τὰς παρευ\|φράτιδας ἐκῥέ\|ων ῥύδην
	ἐξαλαπάζει κ(αὶ) παρασύρει πόλεις·
	πιζὰ· χάλεπ· νίστριον· καρφα\|δὰ· φέρεπ:-

Type(s)	[33667] Ἐδὲμ, Βυζαντὶς, Εὐφράτην ξένον βρύεις (5 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. 12v
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 27.10-29.53.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Eden Konstantinoupolis
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f31.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, 980 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 112, 141
Number of verses	5
Related occurrence(s)	[35234] ἐδὲμ, βυζαντὶς, \| εὐφράτην ξένον \| βρύεις [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 19) (5 verses) (5/5) [35231] πόλεις [1423-1450] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 137 [14th-15th c.] (f. 157r) (2 verses) (2/5) [35229] ἐδὲμ βυζαντὶς \| εὐφράτην ξένον βρύεις [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 14r) (5 verses) (5/5) [35230] ἐδὲμ· βυζαντ(ίς)· \| εὐφράτην \| ξένον βρύεις [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 14r) (5 verses) (5/5) [35232] ἐδὲμ βυζαντίς εὐ\|φράτην ξένον βρύεις [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 13r) (5 verses) (5/5)
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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