Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35307

	ἄναξ μανουὴλ τί παθὼν \| οὕτω τρέπῃ·
	σὺ γὰρ βασι\|λεύτατος εἶναι τ(ῶν) ὅλων, \|
	εὔχῃ κρατούντων· καὶ \| φοβῇ περσοσκύθ(ας)· \|
	μισεῖ θ(εό)ς γαρ ὑπερηφάν(ους) \| φρέν(ας)·
	(καὶ) τοῖς ταπεινοῖς \| ἄφθονον χάριν νέμει:-

Type(s)	[33762] Ἄναξ Μανουὴλ, τί παθὼν οὕτω τρέπῃ (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th-14th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 92v
Palaeographical information	Written in the left margin by a hand working in a later stage with respect to the main text, in a darker ink and a smaller script. This hand is responsible for many of the marginalia and corrections ans additions to the main text (cf. Bértola (2021: 941)). The epigram is surrounded by a light red rectangular frame.
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 182.43-183.65.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Manouel I Komnenos (28/11/1118 - 24/09/1180) - PBW: Manuel/1/
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: 940, 989-990 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 102, 154-155
Number of verses	5
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Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of Julián Bértola. 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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