Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35886

	τεραστί(αν) ὕδατο(ς) \| ἐξηγῆ φύσιν· \|
	οὐκ οἶδ’ ὅθ(εν) ῥέ\|ουσ(αν) ἢ πηγ(ῆς) τίνο(ς)· \|
	τὸ γοῦν λιπαρ(ὸν) ἐκ \| μετάλ(ων) ἂν φέρη· \|
	τὸ χαῦν(ον) ἢ (καὶ) κoῦ\|φον ἔσχ(εν) ἐκ τίνο(ς):

Type(s)	[35884] Τεραστίαν ὕδατος ἐξηγῇ φύσιν (4 verses)
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. 96r
Person(s)	Scribe Nikolaos Triklines (13th c. - 14th c.) - RGK: III.519 - VGH: 360.B - PLP: XII.29315
Palaeographical information	Written in the right margin by the main scribe.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Herodotos' Histories 3.23.2-3.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Herodotus of Halikarnassos < Caria < Asia Minor < Turkey (485 BC - 425 BC)
Image source(s)	https://tecabml.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/plutei/id/1359317
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 72-73 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: 88 (image: plate 8) 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: 346-347
Number of verses	4
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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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