Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36001

	στίχ(οι)

	·: (καὶ) τίς μεμην(ὼς) \| εὑρεθῆ τούτου \| πλέον,
	ὃς \| σῶμα νεκρ(ὸν), \| μαστιγοῦν ἐ\|πιτρέπει:-

Type(s)	[35872] Καὶ τίς μεμηνὼς εὑρεθῇ τούτου πλέον (2 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana L 115 sup. [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 92r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the right margin by the main scribe.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Herodotos' Histories 3.16.1. It is preceded by a prose scholium.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Amasis II of Egypt (600 BC-575 BC - 526 BC) Cambyses II (600 BC-576 BC - 522 BC)
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 71-72 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: 87
Number of verses	2
Related occurrence(s)	[35874] (καὶ) τίς μεμην(ὼς) εὑρεθῆ \| τούτου πλέον [March 1318] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 6 [01/03/1318-31/03/1318] (f. 94r) (2 verses) (2/2) [36061] (καὶ) τίς μέμηνος εὑ\|ρεθῆ τούτου πλέων [August 1440] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 1 [01/08/1440-31/08/1440] (f. 94r) (2 verses) (2/2) [36154] καὶ τίς μεμηνώς \| εὑρεθῆ τούτου πλέον [1491-1510] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 2 [1491-1510] (f. 89v) (2 verses) (2/2) [36120] κ(αὶ) τὶς μεμεινὼς εὑρεθεῖ \| τούτου πλέον [15th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Barocci 114 [15th c.] (f. 23r) (2 verses) (2/2) [35966] καὶ τίς μεμηνὼς \| εὑρεθῆ τούτου \| πλέον [June 1372] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1634 [01/06/1372-30/06/1372] (f. 139v) (2 verses) (2/2) [36075] (καὶ) τὴς μεμηνὼς εὑρεθεῖ τού\|του πλέον [01/05/1474] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2933 [01/05/1474] (f. 64r) (2 verses) (2/2) [36012] (καὶ) τίς μεμην(ὼς) \| εὑρεθῆ τούτου \| πλέον [1420-1430] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Urb. gr. 88 [1420-1430] (f. 56r) (2 verses) (2/2) [36110] κ(αὶ) τίς μεμην(ῶς) εὑρεθῆ \| τούτου πλέον [1480] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1359 [1480] (f. 124v) (2 verses) (2/2) [36028] (καὶ) τίς μεμην(ὼς) \| εὑρεθῆ τούτου \| πλέον [1469] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 364 (coll. 718) [1469] (f. 47v) (2 verses) (2/2) display 6 more occurrences (9 in total) hide 6 occurrences (9 in total)
Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of Julián Bértola. 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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