Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35329

	ἀσυμπαθὴς ἄν(θρωπ)ε \| (καὶ) φθόν(...) γέμων· \|
	(...) βλαβήση πρὸ(ς) \| χάρ(ιν) τ(ὸν) οἰκέτ(ην)
	σώζ(ειν) \| θ(εο)ῦ θέλοντος ἐξ εὐσπλαγ\|χνίας

Type(s)	[33768] Ἀσυμπαθής, ἄνθρωπε, καὶ φθόνου γέμων (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 323.75-324.95. It is preceded by another book epigram.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Andronikos I Komnenos (1118 - 12/09/1185) - PBW: Andronikos/1/
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, 990-991 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
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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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