Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35240

	περσὶς χ(ριστ)ῶ πρὶν, τῶ \| βρωτεργάτη λόγω, \|
	δῶρα κομίζει λίβανον \| χρυσὸν σμύρναν·
	σοὶ \| δ’ αὖ βασιλεῦ περσικ(ῶν) \| ἀρχοὶ φύλων,
	χρυσ(ὸν) \| φέρουσι (καὶ) λίθους (καὶ) \| μαργάρους·
	ἐν οἷς φα\|εινὸς ἦν ξενίζων \| λυχνίτης,
	τὴν στ(αυ)ρικὴν \| μόρφωσιν ἀτεχν(ῶς) φέρ(ων)· \|
	ὧ τεχνικὴ χεὶρ καὶ \| γραφὶς θείω πόθω,
	εἰς \| κάλλος ἐξύφανε γραμμ(ά)τ(ων) \| τύπους·
	οὗ κρεῖττον \| οὐδὲν, οὐδ’ ἶσον 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	06/03/1555
Manuscript	DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555]
Place in Manuscript	p. 21
Person(s)	Scribe Alexandros (16th c.) - VGH: 12.I (hierodiakonos, megas chartophylax of Hagia Sophia < Konstantinoupolis < Turkey)
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the right margin.
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 30.90-2. It is preceded by a signe-de-renvoi, which links these verses to the relevant passage in the main text.
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
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: 955, 980-981 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 114, 141-142 H. Wolf, 1557, Nicetae Acominati Choniatae, magni logothetae secretorum, inspectoris & iudicis veli, praefecti sacri cubiculi LXXXVI annorum historia, videlicet ab anno restitutae salutis circiter MCXVII, in quo Zonaras desinit, usque ad annum MCCIII, Libris XIX descripta … ex trium codicum laboriosa inter sese collatione, Basel: 15-16
Number of verses	9
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Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of Julián Bértola. 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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