Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36108

	στίχ(ος)

	θαυμαστὸς ἦσθα κ(αὶ) \| σιγῶν σὺ κ(αὶ) 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	1480
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1359 [1480]
Place in Manuscript	f. 123v
Person(s)	Scribe Demetrios Raoul Kabakes (15th c.) - RGK: I.95, II.128e, III.162 - VGH: 102.A, 295.B - PLP: V.10016
Palaeographical information	Written in black ink in the left margin by the main scribe.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Herodotos' Histories 3.14.7.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Psamtik III of Egypt (600 BC-551 BC - 525 BC)
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1359.pt.1/126
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) [36059] θαυμαστὸ(ς) ἦσθα \| (καὶ) σιγῶν σὺ καὶ \| λέγων [August 1440] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 1 [01/08/1440-31/08/1440] (f. 93v) (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) [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	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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