Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35239

	περσὶς χ(ριστ)ῶ πρὶν \| τῶ βροτεργάτη \| λόγω·
	δῶρα κο\|μίζει λίβανον· \| χρυσὸν· σμύρναν: \|
	σοί δ’ αὖ βασιλεῦ \| περσικῶν ἀρχοί \| φύλων·
	χρυσὸν \| φέρουσι κ(αὶ) λίθους, \|\| κ(αὶ) μαργάρους· \|
	ἐν οἷς φαεινὸς \| ἦν ξενίζων λυ\|χνίτης·
	τὴν \| στ(αυ)ρικὴν μόρ\|φωσιν ἀτε\|χνῶς φέρων: \|
	ὧ τεχνικὴ \| χεὶρ κ(αὶ) γραφὶς \| θείω πόθω: \|
	εἰς κάλλος ἐ\|ξύφανε γρα\|μμάτ(ων) τύπους: \|
	οὗ κρεῖττον, οὐ\|δὲν· οὐδ ἰαῖσ\|σον τῶν ἐν \| βίω:·

Type(s)	[33670] Περσὶς Χριστῷ πρὶν τῷ βροτεργάτῃ λόγῳ (9 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. 14r-14v
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 30.90-2.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Holy Cross Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/ Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Three Kings
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f34.item https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f35.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, 980-981 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 112, 141-142
Number of verses	9
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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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