Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35326

	στίχ(οι)

	ἂν εὗρ(εν) ἀνδρόνικος \| ὧν λύσ(ιν) δράσοι \|
	πάντως ἂν εὕροι \| (καὶ) σατὰν κακ(ῶν) λύσ(ιν) \|
	ὃν ὁ βροτουργὸς εἶπ(εν) \| ἀνθρωποκτόνον··

Type(s)	[33766] Ἂν εὗρεν Ἀνδρόνικος ὧν λύσιν δράσοι (3 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1423-1450
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 137 [14th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 212v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the left margin, probably by the fourth hand responsible for writing part of this manuscript (cf. Bértola (2021: 947-948)).
Contextual information	The epigram comments on Niketas Choniates' History 323.60-74. It is followed by another book epigram.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Andronikos I Komnenos (1118 - 12/09/1185) - PBW: Andronikos/1/ Devil
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10037986d/f425.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: 947, 949, 990 J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 107, 156
Number of verses	3
Related occurrence(s)	[35327] ἂν εὗρεν ἀνδρόνικος \| ὧν λύσιν δράσοι [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 217) (3 verses) (3/3) [35325] ἂν εὗρεν ἀνδρόνικο(ς) ὧν λύσιν δράσοι [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 176v) (3 verses) (3/3)
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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