Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35305

	κιβωτὸ(ς) \| ὦδε κατακλυσ\|μὸς ὑδάτων· \|\|
	κόρακες ἄλλοι \| νῶε κ(αὶ) πανσπερ\|μία·
	κ(αὶ) ῥῆμα \| παλαίφατον, \| εἰς πέρας τρέχει· \|
	σκηνὴ κιβωτὸς \| τῶν ἀνακτόρ(ων) \| νέα·
	ῥαγδαι\|οτάτων ἀ\|πλετάτων ὑ\|δάτ(ων)·
	χύσις ὕ\|σις· σύρροια· \|
	ἀρχηγέτις δὲ \| νῶε, τῶν ἀστῶν \| ἄναξ·
	βουνῶν \| κοράκων· τῶν \| παρονυμουμέ\|νων·
	μέσον πε\|σὼν ἔστησε τοὺς \| μακροὺς δρόμους· \|
	ἡ δ’ αὖ ἀπείρου \| στρατιᾶς παν\|σπερμία,
	τ(ὸν) \| ἀνδριάντα \| τῆς στρατηγί(ας) \| νέκυν·
	πρὸς \| τὴν βασιλεύου\|σαν ἀνάγει πό\|λιν:-

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	16th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 20r-20v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the right margin of f. 20r and the left margin of f. 20v by the main scribe (hand 1, cf. Bértola (2021: 953)).
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://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f46.item https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55013502t/f47.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, 988-989 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 112, 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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