Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35303

	κιβωτὸ(ς) ὦδε κατα\|κλυσμὸ(ς) ὑδάτ(ων)·
	κό\|ρακες ἄλλοι νῶε καὶ \| πανσπερμία·
	καὶ \| ῥῆμα παλαίφατον, \| εἰς πέρ(ας) τρέχει· \|
	σκηνὴ κιβωτὸ(ς) τῶν \| ἀνακτόρων νέα· \|
	ῥαγδαιοτάτων ἀπλε\|τάτ(ων) ὑδάτων;
	χύσ(ις)· \| ὕσις· σύρροια· τ(ῆς) \| σκην(ῆς) κλύσις·
	ἀρ\|χηγέτ(ης) δὲ νῶε, τῶν \| ἀστῶν ἄναξ·
	βουν(ῶν)· \| κοράκ(ων)· τῶν παρω\|νυμουμ(έν)(ων);
	μέσον \| πεσὼν ἔστησε τ(οὺς) \| μακροὺς δρόμους, \|
	ἡ δ’ αὖ ἀπείρου στρα\|τιᾶς πανσπερμία, \|
	τὸν ἀνδριάντα τ(ῆς) \| στρατηγίας νέκυν; \|
	πρὸς τὴν βασιλεύουσ(αν) \| ἀνάγει πόλιν:-

Type(s)	[33760] Κιβωτὸς ὦδε κατακλυσμὸς ὑδάτων (12 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. 20v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink by the main scribe in the left margin.
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 41.7-16. It is preceded by the note 'ὅρα:-'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/ Noah
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, 988-989 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 104, 153-154
Number of verses	12
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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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