Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35304

	+ κιβωτὸς ὦδε κατακλυσμὸς ὑδάτ(ων)·
	κόρακες ἄλλοι νῶε (καὶ) πανσπερμία·
	καὶ ῥῆμα \| παλαίμφατ(ον) εἰς πέρας τρέχει·
	σκηνὴ κιβωτὸς τῶν ἀνακτόρων νέα·
	ῥαγδαιοτάτ(ων) \| ἀπλετάτων ὑδάτων·
	χύσις ὕσις σύρροια τῆς σκηνῆς κλύσις·
	ἀρχηγέτης δὲ \| νῶε τῶν ἀστῶν ἄναξ·
	βουνῶν κοράκων τῶν παρωνυμουμέν(ων)·
	μέσον πεσὼν \| ἔστησε τ(οὺς) μακρ(οὺς) δρόμ(ους)·
	ἡ δ’ αὖ ἀπείρου στρατιᾶς πανσπερμία·
	τ(ὸν) ἀνδριάντα τ(ῆς) στρα\|τηγί(ας) νέκυν,
	πρὸς τ(ὴν) 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	15th c.
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 20v
Palaeographical information	Written in the lower margin, "by the most recent third hand (15th century)" (Bértola (2021: 950-951)).
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 41.7-16.
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_7205879
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: 950, 988-989 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 109, 153-154
Number of verses	12
Related occurrence(s)	[35306] κιβωτὸς ὧδε κατα\|κλυσμὸς ὑδάτων [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 29) (12 verses) (12/12) [35305] κιβωτὸ(ς) \| ὦδε κατακλυσ\|μὸς ὑδάτων [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 20r-20v) (12 verses) (12/12) [35302] κιβωτὸς ὦδε κατακλυσμὸ(ς) ὑδάτ(ων) [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 20r) (12 verses) (12/12) [35303] κιβωτὸ(ς) ὦδε κατα\|κλυσμὸ(ς) ὑδάτ(ων) [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 20v) (12 verses) (12/12)
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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