Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36113

	στίχ(οι)

	γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς \| οὗτος εἰς φιλοχρύσους \|
	ἂν τοὺς πόδας ἔθλιψ(εν) \| (ὡς) ποδῶν βάρος·
	τὰς \| καρδί(ας) εὔφραν(εν) ὡς χρυ\|σοῦ πλέον·
	ἂν τίς κο\|μίσει ταύτας αὐτοῖς \| τὰς πέδας·
	κ(αὶ) π(άν)τ(ας) ἔνθ(εν) \| ἀποφήνη δεσμίους· \|
	τ(οὺς) χρυσ(ὸν) ἐμπνέοντ(ας) \| πλέον:
	οὐδεὶς γὰρ αὐτ(ῶν) ἐξέ\|φυγε τὴν δέσιν· \|
	οὐδ’ αὖ μί(αν) ἔστερξεν \| εἱληφῶς πέδην· \|
	ὁμοῦ δὲ χεῖρας κ(αὶ) \| τράχηλον κ(αὶ) πόδ(ας), \|
	κ(αὶ) σωματικ(ὴν) σύμπα\|σαν διαρτίαν,
	τ(αῖς) \| χρυσίν(αις) ἔσπευσε λα\|φθῆναι πέδαις:

Type(s)	[35887] Γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς οὗτος εἰς φιλοχρύσους (11 verses)
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. 127v
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. There is a blank space in between the sixth and seventh verses.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Herodotos' Histories 3.23.4.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1359.pt.1/130
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 73-74 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: 89-90
Number of verses	11
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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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