Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 36157

	στίχ(οι)

	γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς οὗτος \| εἰς φιλοχρύσους·
	ἂν \| τοὺς πόδας ἔθλιψ(εν) ὡς \| ποδῶν βαρη,
	τὰς καρ-\|δίας ηὔφραν(εν) ὡς χρυ-\|σοῦς πλέον·
	ὢ τίς κο-\|μίσει ταύτας αὐτοῖς τὰς \| πέδας·
	καὶ πάντας ἔν-\|θεν ἀποφήνη δεσμίους· \|
	τοὺς χρυσὸν ἐμπνέοντας πλέον· \|
	οὐδεὶς γὰρ αὐτῶν ἐξέφυγε τὴν δέσιν·
	οὐδ’ αὖ μίαν ἔστερξ(εν) εἰληφὼς πέδην·
	ὁμοῦ δὲ χεῖρας καὶ τράχηλον \| καὶ πόδας,
	καὶ σωματικ(ὴν) σύμπασ(αν) διαρτί(αν),
	ταῖς χρυσίναις ἔσπευσε ληφθῆναι 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	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 and lower margins by the main scribe.
Contextual information	The epigram is written next to and comments on Herodotos' Histories 3.23.4.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
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
Related occurrence(s)	[35911] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸ(ς) οὗτο(ς) \| εἰς φιλοχρύσους [March 1318] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 70, Cod. 6 [01/03/1318-31/03/1318] (f. 96v) (11 verses) (11/11) [36004] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς \| οὗτος εἰς φιλο\|χρύσους [14th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana L 115 sup. [14th c.] (f. 94r) (11 verses) (11/11) [36066] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸ(ς) οὗτος \| εἰς φιλοχρύσους [August 1440] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III B 1 [01/08/1440-31/08/1440] (f. 96r) (11 verses) (11/11) [36123] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσ\|μὸς οὗτος εἰς φιλο\|χρύσους [15th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Barocci 114 [15th c.] (f. 23v) (11 verses) (11/11) [35969] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς \| οὗτος εἰς φιλο\|χρύσους [June 1372] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1634 [01/06/1372-30/06/1372] (f. 142v) (11 verses) (11/11) [36078] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς οὗτος εἰς \| φιλοχρύσους [01/05/1474] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2933 [01/05/1474] (f. 65v) (11 verses) (11/11) [36113] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς \| οὗτος εἰς φιλοχρύσους [1480] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1359 [1480] (f. 127v) (11 verses) (11/11) [36031] γλυκὺς ὁ δεσμὸς οὗτος \| εἰς φιλοχρύσους [1469] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 364 (coll. 718) [1469] (f. 48v) (11 verses) (11/11) 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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