Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 37327

	ἐπίγραμμα

	οἶδ’ ὅτι θνητὸς ἐγὼν καὶ ἐφάμερος· ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρων
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Type(s)	[2326] Οἶδ’, ὅτι θνατὸς ἐγὼ καὶ ἐφάμερος· ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἄστρων (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	11/07/1488-11/10/1488
Manuscript	MODENA - Biblioteca Estense Universitaria α. V. 7. 06 (Puntoni 174; olim II F 9) [11/07/1488-11/10/1488]
Place in Manuscript	f. 4r
Person(s)	Scribe Georgius Valla (1447 - 23/01/1500) - RGK: III.91 - VGH: 70.G - PLP: II.2086
Palaeographical information	Written in one column, pentameters indented. Light-brown ink. Humanistic hand of Giorgio Valla, responsible for the transcription of the whole manuscript.
Contextual information	The epigram precedes Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos (Quadripartitum/Apotelesmatika), which starts on the same page below.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Claudius Ptolemy (2nd c.) Zeus
Bibliography	Primary V. Puntoni 1896, Indice dei codici greci della Biblioteca Estense di Modena, Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica (SIFC), 4, 379-536: 494 C. Samberger, 1965, Catalogi codicum graecorum qui in minoribus bibliothecis Italicis asservantur (vol. 1), Leipzig: 410
Number of verses	4
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Acknowledgements	Information on the occurrence courtesy of Ioanna Skoura. Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of Ioanna Skoura Creator(s) Grigory Vorobyev Transcriber(s) Grigory Vorobyev The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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