Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35242

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	⁘ δὶς ὁ βασιλεὺς τῆ θεουπόλει πόλει;
	(καὶ) δὶς νικητ(ὴς) εἰσιὼν κλέο(ς) νέμει:
	καὶ δὶς δὶς οὗτο(ς) αὖθι τῆ κωνσταντίνου,
	(καὶ) μυριάκ(ις) μυριοστεφηφόρο(ς)·
	ὡς τῶν καλῶν κάλλιστο(ς) αὐσόν(ων) ἄναξ;
	ἐφίσταται θρίαμβον ἀρτύων πάλιν:-

Type(s)	[33672] Δὶς ὁ βασιλεὺς τῇ Θεουπόλει πόλει (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1301-1350
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350]
Place in Manuscript	f. 15v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink by the main scribe in the lower margin. Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 31.16-21.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/ Konstantinoupolis Triumph
Image source(s)	https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_7071358
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: 943, 981 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 104, 143
Number of verses	6
Related occurrence(s)	[35245] δὶς ὁ βασιλεὺς τῆ \| θεουπόλ(ει) πόλει [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 22) (6 verses) (6/6) [35244] δὶς ὁ βασιλεὺς τῆ θεουπόλει πόλει [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 14v) (6 verses) (6/6) [35241] δὶς ὁ βασιλ(εὺς) τῶ θεουπ(ό)λει \| πόλει [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 15v) (6 verses) (6/6) [35243] δὶς ὁ βασιλεὺς τῆ θεου\|πόλει πόλει [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 15r) (6 verses) (6/6)
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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