Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36055

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Type(s)	[35840] Ἀνεκτὸς ἦν Ἅμασις τῇ σπουδῇ νέμων (10 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	August 1440
Manuscript	NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 1 [August 1440]
Place in Manuscript	f. 87r
Person(s)	Scribe Ioannes of Chandax < Crete < Greece (15th c.) - VGH: 202.G - PLP: IV.8463 (deutereuon of Sparta < Laconia < Peloponnesos < Greece, diakonos of Sparta < Laconia < Peloponnesos < Greece)
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink in the right margin by the main scribe. The initial cross is in black ink.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Herodotos' Histories 2.173.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Amasis II of Egypt (600 BC-575 BC - 526 BC)
Comment	The last eight verses of the epigram are omitted in this manuscript.
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 68-69 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: 84-85
Number of verses	2
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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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