Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35864

	στίχ(ος)

	θαυμαστὸ(ς) ἦσθα (καὶ) \| σιγῶν σὺ (καὶ) λέγων:-

Type(s)	[35862] Θαυμαστὸς ἦσθα καὶ σιγῶν σὺ καὶ λέγων (1 verse)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	March 1318
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 6 [March 1318]
Place in Manuscript	f. 93v
Person(s)	Scribe Nikolaos Triklines (13th c. - 14th c.) - RGK: III.519 - VGH: 360.B - PLP: XII.29315
Palaeographical information	Written in the left margin by the main scribe.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Herodotos' Histories 3.14.7.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Psamtik III of Egypt (600 BC-551 BC - 525 BC)
Image source(s)	https://tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/plutei/id/1359312
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 70-71 J. Bértola 2023, A First Critical Edition of the Cycle of Epigrams on Herodotus in the Margins of Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 70.6 and Some of Its Apographa, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB), 72, 63-96: 86, 86 (image: plate 4) Secondary J. Bértola 2024, An Unedited Cycle of Byzantine Verse Scholia on Herodotus in the Light of Twelfth-Century Verse Scholia on Ancient Historians, in B. van den Berg, N. Zagklas (eds.), Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204). New Texts, New Approaches, Cambridge, 339-365: 341
Number of verses	1
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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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