Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35950

+ ἡμέραν τὴν τ(ῆς) κ(α)ταρχ(ῆς) μηνὸ(ς) ἑκάστου πότε,
τῆς ἑβδομάδο(ς) ἔται σοι μανθάν(ειν) εἴπερ βούλει
μέθοδο(ς) ἡ παροῦσα σε σαφέστα(τα) διδάξει.
Type(s) [35954] ῾Ἡμέραν τὴν τῆς καταρχῆς μηνὸς ἑκάστου πότε (3 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 1270-1280
Manuscript MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 225 [1270-1320]
Place in Manuscript f. 40r
Person(s)
Scribe
Georgios II of Cyprus also known as Gregorios II (1241-1290) - RGK: II.99 - VGH: 90.Q - PLP: II.4590 (patriarches of Konstantinoupolis < Turkey)
Palaeographical information Written in three columns.
Contextual information The epigram introduces an anonymous didactic poem (consisting of 38 political verses) about how one could find the day of the week for the first day of each month, see Skoura (2024: 235).
Metre(s) Decapentasyllable
Genre(s)
Image source(s) https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0011/bsb00110102/images/index.html?id=00110102&groesser=&fip=eayawxseayayztsewqeayasdasyztsxsyzts&no=5&seite=97
Bibliography

Primary

I. Skoura 2024, Teaching Easter Computus With Verse. A Didactic Poem in Laur. Plut. 87.16, in K. Kubina, M. Goiana (eds.), Cult, Devotion, and Aesthetics in Later Byzantine Poetry, Turnhout, 213-238: 235
Number of verses 3
Related occurrence(s) [35953] ἡμέρ(αν) τὴν τῆς καταρχῆς μηνὸς ἑκάστ(ου) πότ(ε) [1546-1555]
MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 10 [1546-1555] (p. 859)
(3 verses) (3/3)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Juan Bautista Juan López
Transcriber(s)
Juan Bautista Juan López

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