Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35299

	τὸ τραῦμα βρα\|χὺ δακτύλου \| δέρμα ξέσαν· \|\|
	ὁ δ’ ὄγκος οὕτω \| τῆς χερὸς μέ\|τρου πέρα·
	βα\|ρύταται δ’ αὖ, \| αἱ περιωδινίαι· \|
	ὡς ἀποκαμ(εῖν) \| κ(αὶ) μαχαόνων \| ἄκος·
	καί σοι \| βασιλεῦ, τέρ\|μα μηνύει βί\|ου·
	φρόντισον \| οὐκοῦν τοῦ, κρά\|τους διαδόχου:-

Type(s)	[33758] Τὸ τραῦμα βραχὺ δακτύλου δέρμα ξέσαν (6 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. 19v-20r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the left margin of f. 19v and the right margin of f. 20r by the main scribe (hand 1, cf. Bértola (2021: 953)).
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 40.71-41.7.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f45.item https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f46.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, 988 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 112, 152-153
Number of verses	6
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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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