Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36068

	στίχ(οι)·

	κἂν εἰς ἄλλα μέ\|μηνεν ἔργα κα\|μβύσης,
	ἐνταῦ\|θα γε σοῦ, σοφρο\|νέστερος φθά\|νει·
	γέλωτα τιθ(εῖς)· \| τοὺς γελώτ(ων) ἀξί(ους):

Type(s)	[35916] Κἂν εἰς ἄλλα μέμηνεν ἔργα Καμβύσης (3 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. 100v
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 left margin by the main scribe.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Herodotos' Histories 3.73.3-38.1.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Cambyses II (600 BC-576 BC - 522 BC) Herodotus of Halikarnassos < Caria < Asia Minor < Turkey (485 BC - 425 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: 75 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: 91
Number of verses	3
Related occurrence(s)	[35920] κἂν εἰς ἄλλα μέμην(εν) \| ἔργα καμβύσ(ης) [March 1318] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 6 [01/03/1318-31/03/1318] (f. 100v) (3 verses) (3/3) [36006] κἂν εἰς ἄλλα μέ\|μηνεν ἔργα καμ\|βύσης [14th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana L 115 sup. [14th c.] (f. 98r) (3 verses) (3/3) [36124] κἂν εἰς ἄλλα \| μέμειν(εν) ἔργα \| καμβύσης [15th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Barocci 114 [15th c.] (f. 24v) (3 verses) (3/3) [35971] κἂν εἰς ἄλλα μέμειν(εν) \| ἔργα καμβύσης [June 1372] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1634 [01/06/1372-30/06/1372] (f. 148r) (3 verses) (3/3) [36079] κἂν εἰς ἄλλα μέμηνεν ἔργα κα\|μβύσης [01/05/1474] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2933 [01/05/1474] (f. 67v) (3 verses) (3/3) [36115] κἂν εἰς ἄλλα μέ\|μην(εν) ἔργα καμ\|βύσ(ης) [1480] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1359 [1480] (f. 133r) (3 verses) (3/3) [36033] κἂν εἰς ἄλλα μέ\|μηνεν ἔργα καμ\|βύσης [1469] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 364 (coll. 718) [1469] (f. 50v) (3 verses) (3/3) display 4 more occurrences (7 in total) hide 4 occurrences (7 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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