Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36156

	τεραστί(αν) ὕδατος ἐξη-\|γῆ φύσιν·
	οὐκ οἶ-\|δ’ ὅθεν ῥέουσ(αν) ἢ πηγ(ῆς) \| τίνος·
	τὸ γοῦν λιπαρ(ὸν) \| ἐκ μετάλων ἂν φέρη· \|
	τὸ χαῦν(ον) ἢ καὶ κoῦ-\|φον ἔσχεν ἐκ τίνος:-

Type(s)	[35884] Τεραστίαν ὕδατος ἐξηγῇ φύσιν (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1491-1510
Manuscript	NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 2 [1491-1510]
Place in Manuscript	f. 91v
Person(s)	Scribe Demetrios Damilas (15th-16th c.) - RGK: I.93, II.127, III.160 - PLP: III.5084
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 3.23.2-3.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	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: 72-73 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: 88
Number of verses	4
Related occurrence(s)	[35886] τεραστί(αν) ὕδατο(ς) \| ἐξηγῆ φύσιν [March 1318] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 6 [01/03/1318-31/03/1318] (f. 96r) (4 verses) (4/4) [36003] τεραστί(αν) ὕδατος \| ἐξηγῆ φύσ(ιν) [14th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana L 115 sup. [14th c.] (f. 94r) (4 verses) (4/4) [36065] τεραστίαν ὕδατος \| ἐξηγῆ φύσιν [August 1440] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 1 [01/08/1440-31/08/1440] (f. 96r) (4 verses) (4/4) [36122] στεραστίης ὕδατος. ἐξη\|γῆ φύσιν [15th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Barocci 114 [15th c.] (f. 23v) (4 verses) (4/4) [35968] τεραστίαν ὕδατος \| ἐξηγῆ φύσιν [June 1372] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1634 [01/06/1372-30/06/1372] (f. 142v) (4 verses) (4/4) [36077] στεραστίης ὕδατος ἐξηγῆ φύσιν [01/05/1474] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2933 [01/05/1474] (f. 65v) (4 verses) (4/4) [36112] τεραστί(αν) ὕδατος \| ἐξηγῆ φύσιν [1480] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1359 [1480] (f. 127v) (4 verses) (4/4) [36030] τεραστί(αν) ὕδατος ἐξηγῆ \| φύσιν [1469] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 364 (coll. 718) [1469] (f. 48r) (4 verses) (4/4) 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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