Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36059

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	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	August 1440
Manuscript	NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 1 [August 1440]
Place in Manuscript	f. 93v
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.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Herodotos' Histories 3.14.7. It is preceded by another verse scholium, which usually follows this verse.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Psamtik III of Egypt (600 BC-551 BC - 525 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: 70 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
Number of verses	1
Related occurrence(s)	[35864] θαυμαστὸ(ς) ἦσθα (καὶ) \| σιγῶν σὺ (καὶ) λέγων [March 1318] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 6 [01/03/1318-31/03/1318] (f. 93v) (1 verse) (1/1) [35999] θαυμαστὸς \| ἦσθα (καὶ) σιγ(ῶν) \| σὺ κ(αὶ) λέγων [14th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana L 115 sup. [14th c.] (f. 91v) (1 verse) (1/1) [36152] θαυμαστὸς ἦσθα (καὶ) \| σιγῶν σὺ καὶ λέγ(ων) [1491-1510] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 2 [1491-1510] (f. 89r) (1 verse) (1/1) [36117] θαυμαστῶς οἶ\|σθα κ(αὶ) σιγῶν σὺ \| κ(αὶ) λέγων [15th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Barocci 114 [15th c.] (f. 22v) (1 verse) (1/1) [35949] θαυμαστὸς \| ἦσθα (καὶ) σι\|γῶν σὺ (καὶ) \| λέγων [June 1372] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1634 [01/06/1372-30/06/1372] (f. 139r) (1 verse) (1/1) [36073] θαυμαστὸς ἦσθα καὶ συ\|γῶν σὺ καὶ λέγων [01/05/1474] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2933 [01/05/1474] (f. 64r) (1 verse) (1/1) [36108] θαυμαστὸς ἦσθα κ(αὶ) \| σιγῶν σὺ κ(αὶ) λέγων [1480] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1359 [1480] (f. 123v) (1 verse) (1/1) [36025] Θαυμαστὸς ἦσθα (καὶ) \| συγῶν σὺ (καὶ) λέγων [1469] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 364 (coll. 718) [1469] (f. 47r) (1 verse) (1/1) display 5 more occurrences (8 in total) hide 5 occurrences (8 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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