Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35308

	ἄναξ μανουὴλ τί παθὼν οὕτω τρέπη:
	σὺ γ(ὰρ) βασιλεύτατο(ς) εἶναι τῶν ὅλων, \|
	εὔχῃ κρατούντων, (καὶ) φοβῇ περσοσκύθας;
	μισεῖ θ(εό)ς γαρ ὑπερηφάνους 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	1301-1350
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350]
Place in Manuscript	f. 97r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink by the main scribe in the upper and right margins.
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 182.43-183.65. It is preceded by a signe-de-renvoi, which links these verses to the relevant passage in the main text.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Manouel I Komnenos (28/11/1118 - 24/09/1180) - PBW: Manuel/1/
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, 989-990 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 104, 154-155
Number of verses	5
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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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