About
DBBE is hosted by Ghent University, Department of Literary Studies, Greek Section.
Funding
Funding has been provided by
The Hercules Foundation of the Flemish Government (2010-2015)
Promoters: Kristoffel Demoen, Gunnar De Boel, Marc De Groote, Koen De Temmerman, Mark Janse.
The Special Research Fund of Ghent University (2015-2020)
Promoters: Kristoffel Demoen, Marc De Groote, Mark Janse.
Co-promoters: Floris Bernard, Klaas Bentein, Koen De Temmerman, Tjamke Snijders, Peter Van Nuffelen.
Team
To meet the people behind the abbreviation, please visit our Team page.
Partners
- Pinakes hosted by the IRHT.
- Byzantinische Epigramme in inschriftlicher Überlieferung hosted by the Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna.
- Paratexts of the Bible hosted by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
- Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities
- DDCM
- Σημειώματα-Κώδικες hosted by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Publications
The following publications by members of the DBBE team focus on book epigrams, including editions of or commentaries on hitherto inaccessible texts.
Forthcoming
- R. Ricceri, "The Byzantine Reception of the Metaphrasis Psalmorum: Paratextuality and Visual Representation",
in: R. Ceulemans and B. Crostini (eds), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium: Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, Uppsala: Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia. - K. Demoen, "An Aristophanean Epigram on the Psalter",
in: C. Barber and F. Spingou (eds), Medieval Texts on Byzantine Arts and Aesthetics, vol. 3: From Alexios I Komnenos to the Rise of Hesychasm (1081-ca. 1330), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - K. Demoen, "Book Epigrams",
in: C. Barber and F. Spingou (eds), Medieval Texts on Byzantine Arts and Aesthetics, vol. 3: From Alexios I Komnenos to the Rise of Hesychasm (1081-ca. 1330), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - K. Demoen, "Epigrams on the Evangelists in an illuminated Gospel Book",
in: C. Barber and F. Spingou (eds), Medieval Texts on Byzantine Arts and Aesthetics, vol. 3: From Alexios I Komnenos to the Rise of Hesychasm (1081-ca. 1330), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - M. Tomadaki, "Constantine Manasses, A Dedicatory Epigram to the Sebastokratorissa Eirene",
in: C. Barber and F. Spingou (eds), Medieval Texts on Byzantine Arts and Aesthetics, vol. 3: From Alexios I Komnenos to the Rise of Hesychasm (1081-ca. 1330), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - R. Ricceri and R. Meesters, "A metrical colophon on John Klimax’s Ladder of divine ascent",
in: C. Barber and F. Spingou (eds), Medieval Texts on Byzantine Arts and Aesthetics, vol. 3: From Alexios I Komnenos to the Rise of Hesychasm (1081-ca. 1330), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - R. Ricceri, "A laudatory epigram on Gregory of Nazianzos",
in: C. Barber and F. Spingou (eds), Medieval Texts on Byzantine Arts and Aesthetics, vol. 3: From Alexios I Komnenos to the Rise of Hesychasm (1081-ca. 1330), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2020
- S. De Groot, “Byzantine Book-Epigrams: From Manuscript to Edition”,
in: M. Berghöfer, A. Beron, F. Etling, G. Hedderich, M. Stralla, and A. Wilken (eds), (Un)documented: What remains of the document in the publication?, Berlin-Boston: De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 39-60. - R. Meesters, "The visual Representation of the formulaic Colophon Verse τῷ συντελεστῇ τῶν καλῶν θεῷ χάρις",
in: C. Brockmann, D. Harlfinger and S. Valente (eds), Griechisch-byzantinische Handschriftenforschung. Traditionen, Entwicklungen, neue Wege, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, pp. 333-347.
2019
- F. Bernard, "Christophoros Mitylenaios, gedichten 33 en 34 (ed. De Groote)",
in: T. Scheijnen, B. Verhelst (eds), Parels in schrift. Huldeboek voor Marc De Groote, Ghent: Skribis, 2019, pp. 51-53. - K. Demoen, "Μᾶρκος εὐφραίνει ψυχὰς σκότει μενούσας. Marc vrolijkt sombere zielen op (DBBE type 2630)",
in: T. Scheijnen, B. Verhelst (eds), Parels in schrift. Huldeboek voor Marc De Groote, Ghent: Skribis, 2019, pp. 127-130. - I. De Vos, S. De Groot, A. Rouckhout, "“I am a Grammatical Textbook”. Towards a Critical Edition of a Deceivingly Simple Book Epigram",
in: T. Scheijnen, B. Verhelst (eds), Parels in schrift. Huldeboek voor Marc De Groote, Ghent: Skribis, 2019, pp. 91-94. - R. Ricceri, "Gregory of Nazianzus, carm. I, 1, 21 (PG 37, 491-492)",
in: T. Scheijnen, B. Verhelst (eds), Parels in schrift. Huldeboek voor Marc De Groote, Ghent: Skribis, 2019, pp. 119-121. - J. Boeten, “Byzantine particles: A case study of juxtaposed τε καί and δέ in medieval dodecasyllables”,
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 59 (2019), pp. 529-550. - M. Tomadaki and E. van Opstall, “The Tragedians from a Byzantine Perspective: Book Epigrams on Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides”,
Medioevo greco 19 (2019), pp. 65-92. - K. Demoen, "Literary Epigrams on Authors, Texts and Books",
in: C. Carey, M. Kanellou and I. Petrovic (eds), Greek Epigram from the Hellenistic to the early Byzantine Era, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, pp. 66-82. - F. Bernard and K. Demoen, "Book Epigrams",
in: A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas and W. Hörandner (eds), Brill Companion to Byzantine Poetry, Leiden: Brill, 2019, pp. 404-429. - J. Boeten and S. De Groot, "The Byzantine Antiquarian: a Case Study of a Compiled Colophon",
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 112 (2019), pp. 31-46.
2018
- J. Bértola, "Book epigrams bizantinos sobre novelas griegas antiguas",
Anales de Filología Clásica 31.1 (2018), pp. 25-36. - M. Tomadaki, "The Reception of Ancient Greek Literature in the Iambic Poems of John Geometres",
in: A. Rhoby and N. Zagklas (eds), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Text and Context (Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 14), Turnhout: Brepols, 2018, pp. 73-95. - R. Meesters and R. Ricceri, "A 12th-century cycle of four poems on John Klimax: Editio princeps",
in: A. Rhoby and N. Zagklas (eds), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Text and Context (Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 14), Turnhout: Brepols, 2018, pp. 285-386. - R. Meesters, "A 12th-century cycle of four poems on John Klimax: a Brief Analysis",
in: A. Rhoby and N. Zagklas (eds), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Text and Context (Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization 14), Turnhout: Brepols, 2018, pp. 387-406. - S. De Groot, "Hij die ons allen zonder dwaling verlichtte: boekepigrammen in de Byzantijnse manuscripten van Pseudo-Dionysius de Areopagiet",
Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 71 (2018), pp. 5-21. - M. Tomadaki, "An unpublished poem on Porphyry"
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 111.3 (2018), pp. 777-792. - J. Boeten and M. Janse, "A Cognitive Analysis of Metrical Irregularities in the Ὥσπερ ξένοι Book Epigrams",
Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 42.1 (2018), pp. 79-91.
2017
- J. Boeten and S. De Groot, "Book epigrams in Byzantine manuscripts",
British Library Greek Manuscripts blog, 25 October 2017.
2016
- K. Demoen and V. Somers, "Grégoire de Nazianze, le Fils du tonnerre. Encore quelques adscripta métriques dans les manuscrits grégoriens",
in: V. Somers and P. Yannopoulos (eds), Philokappadox. In memoriam Justin Mossay (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta), Leuven: Peeters, 2016, pp. 199-221. - R. Meesters, R. Praet, F. Bernard and K. Demoen, "Makarios’ cycle on the Psalms, Bodleianus Baroccianus 194",
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 109.2 (2016), pp. 837-860. - R. Meesters, "Byzantijnse boekepigrammen / metrische parateksten: terminologie en classificatie",
Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 69 (2016), pp. 169-184. - R. Meesters, "Ascending the Ladder: Editio Princeps of Four Poems on the Ladder of John Klimakos (Bodleian Baroccianus 141)",
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 56.3 (2016), pp. 556-571.
2013
- K. Demoen, "La poésie de la συλλογή. Les paratextes métriques des manuscrits byzantins et le (vocabulaire du) recueil",
in: C. Gastgeber, C. Messis, D. Muresan & F. Ronconi (eds), Pour l'amour de Byzance: hommage à Paolo Odorico (Eastern and Central European Studies 3), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013, pp. 89-98.
2012
- K. Bentein and K. Demoen, "The Reader in Eleventh-century Book Epigrams",
in: F. Bernard and K. Demoen (eds), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, pp. 69-88. - F. Bernard and K. Demoen, "Byzantine book epigrams from manuscripts to a digital database",
in: C. Clivaz, J. Meizoz, F. Vallotton and J. Verheyden (eds), From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era: Readings and Literacies, Proceedings, Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2012, pp. 431-440.
2011
- K. Bentein and F. Bernard, "A Cycle of Book Epigrams on the Four Evangelists",
Scriptorium 65.2 (2011), pp. 237-249.
2010
- K. Bentein, F. Bernard, K. Demoen and M. De Groote, "New Testament Book Epigrams: Some New Evidence from the Eleventh Century",
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 103 (2010), pp. 13-23.
2009
- K. Bentein, F. Bernard, K. Demoen, and M. De Groote, "Book Epigrams in Honor of the Church Fathers. Some Inedita from the Eleventh Century",
Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 49 (2009), pp. 281-294.
Conference papers and presentations
We seek to disseminate our ideas and discuss them as widely as possible.
2021
- Renaat Meesters, Terra incognita? Latin Book Epigrams in the Royal Library of Belgium.
Old Books and New Technologies: Medieval Books and the Digital Humanities in the Low Countries, Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, 6 May 2021 - Kristoffel Demoen & Floris Bernard, Collected from all kinds of places. Building and Exploring a Corpus of Byzantine Book Epigrams.
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar, University of Oxford, Oxford, 10 March 2021 - Julie Boeten, The Focus in and on Book Epigrams: A Pragmatic Investigation of Object Clitic Pronouns and the Topic-Focus Pair in Byzantine Book Epigrams.
Speaking From the Margins. DBBE Online Lectures. Spring 2021 Series, Ghent University, Ghent, 2 March 2021
2020
- Maria Tomadaki, Η ηλεκτρονική βάση των βιβλιακών επιγραμμάτων του Πανεπιστημίου της Γάνδης (DBBE): επιγράμματα Κρητικών λογίων και κωδικογράφων.
Division of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Crete, Rethimno, 26 November 2020. - Julián Bértola, Reactions, reflections, paraphrases: functions and contexts of Byzantine verse scholia on historiography.
Centre for Medieval Literature, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 2 March 2020.
2019
- Maria Tomadaki & Ilse De Vos, Τα βυζαντινά βιβλιακά επιγράμματα και η νέα ηλεκτρονική τους βάση στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Γάνδης.
Division of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Crete, Rethimno, 22 October 2019 - Sien De Groot, A Cycle of Three Book Epigrams on Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
XVIII. International Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford, 19-24 August 2019 - Sien De Groot, Byzantine Book Epigrams on Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Church Fathers in the Margins: Patristic Traditions in Biblical Manuscripts, Munich, 24-25 June 2019 - Ilse De Vos, A Walk through the New Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (DBBE).
Church Fathers in the Margins: Patristic Traditions in Biblical Manuscripts, Munich, 24-25 June 2019 - Renaat Meesters, Book Epigrams on John Climacus.
Lectio Round Table "The Ladder of John of Sinai", Leuven, 30 April 2019 - Julián Bértola, Hic rursus poeta scholiastes: un ciclo de escolios en verso a la Historia de Nicetas Coniata.
XVIII Conference on Byzantine studies of the Spanish Byzantine Studies Society (SEB), Barcelona, 30 January - 2 February 2019
2018
- Sien De Groot, Byzantine Book Epigrams on Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite - From Document to Edition.
(un)documented - Was bleibt vom Dokument in der Edition?, Wuppertal, 18-19 October 2018 - Julián Bértola, Byzantine Verse Scholia on Ancient Authors.
XIes Rencontres internationales des doctorants en études byzantines, Paris, 12-13 October 2018 - Julie Boeten, The metrical pause in Byzantine metre: The example of juxtaposed τε καί in medieval book epigrams.
XIes Rencontres internationales des doctorants en études byzantines, Paris, 12-13 October 2018 - Sien De Groot, Three Book Epigrams in Honour of Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
XIes Rencontres internationales des doctorants en études byzantines, Paris, 12-13 October 2018 - Sien De Groot, The Manuscripts Flor. BML Plut. 13 Dext. 1, 2 and 3: a Curious Case of Bilingualism.
IXe Colloque international de Paléographie grecque, Paris, 10-15 September 2018 - Rachele Ricceri, Book Epigrams on the Psalter: Manuscript Evidence and Editorial Approach.
IXe Colloque international de Paléographie grecque, Paris, 10-15 September 2018 - Julián Bértola, Tzetzes’ verse scholia: a particular case of book epigrams.
International Conference: "Tzetzes", Venice, 6-8 September 2018 - Rachele Ricceri, “Ascolta Davide, il nostro Orfeo”: verso un’edizione dei book epigrams sul Salterio.
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 4 July 2018 - Julián Bértola, An Unedited Cycle of Byzantine Verse Scholia on Herodotus in the Light of Twelfth-Century Verse Scholia on Ancient Historians.
International Conference "Byzantine Poetry in the ‘Long’ Twelfth Century (1081-1204): Perceptions, Motivations, and Functions", Vienna, 13-15 June 2018 - Julián Bértola, Byzantine book epigrams on ancient authors: the case of verse scholia.
U4 Winter School Antiquity “Hybridity and Complexity in Antiquity”, Athens, 7-10 March 2018 - Rachele Ricceri, See the beauty of these writings: visual elements of Byzantine book epigrams.
The Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar. The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Oxford, 22 February 2018 - Kristoffel Demoen, Les paratextes métriques dans les manuscrits bibliques grecs. A propos d’une série d’épigrammes sur les évangélistes dans le Moscow, Synod. gr. 407.
Colloque international "Poésie, bible et théologie de l'Antiquité tardive au Moyen Age", Strasbourg, 25-27 January 2018
2017
- Kristoffel Demoen, Presentation of the Project "Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams".
International Conference "Two Myths and two Languages: Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Poetry", Vienna, 7-9 December 2017 - DBBE team, Poster presentation.
LW Research Day, Ghent, 29 November 2017 - Sien De Groot and Rachele Ricceri, Medieval Byzantine manuscripts: Byzantine book epigrams in a European database project.
CARMEN Annual Meeting, Ghent, 22-24 September 2017 - Julián Bértola, Book epigrams bizantinos sobre novelas griegas.
Segundo Coloquio Bizantino de la UBA "Entre castidad y lujuria. Sexo y amor en Bizancio", Buenos Aires, 28-29 August 2017 - Sien De Groot, Book Epigrams in the Manuscript Tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite.
International Medieval Congress, Session "Webs of Paratexts, Paratexts on the Web: Collecting and Editing Medieval Greek Paratexts", Leeds, 3-6 July 2017 - Julie Boeten, The Ὥσπερ ξένοι Colophon and Its Metrical Variances: A Window to the Scribe's Mind?
International Medieval Congress, Session "Medieval Book Epigrams: Colophons through the Ages", Leeds, 3-6 July 2017 - Sien De Groot, Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscript Tradition of Ps.- Dionysius the Areopagite.
Lectio Doctoral Seminar "Transmitting Science in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (c. 1100-c. 1500): the Material Evidence", Leuven, 11 May 2017 - Julie Boeten, The Travelling of Imagery: A Cognitive Analysis of the Metre of Two Medieval Colophons.
The Oxford University Byzantine Society's 19th International Graduate Conference: Transmitting and Circulating the Late Antique and Byzantine Worlds, Oxford, 24-25 February 2017
2016
- Julie Boeten, Metrical Variation in the Ὥσπερ ξένοι Book Epigrams.
Varieties of Late Antique and Byzantine Greek, Gent, 1-2 December 2016 - Krystina Kubina, The Many Ways of Reading Poetry in Late Byzantium: Manuel Philes' Laudatory Poems.
Gent, 24 November 2016 - Rachele Ricceri, Texts, Paratexts, Manuscripts: the Reception of the Psalms in the Metaphrasis Psalmorum.
23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Thematic session on "Byzantines and the Bible", Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016 - Julie Boeten and Sien De Groot, Byzantine Book Epigrams: The Case of ὥσπερ ξένοι …
23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016 - Maria Tomadaki and Emilie M. van Opstall, Book Epigrams on Ancient Poets.
23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Round table "Poetic Circles and Anthologies in Byzantium”, Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016 - Sien De Groot and Julie Boeten, Byzantine Book Epigrams: Poetry from the Margins.
17th Annual CBOMGS Postgraduate Colloquium, Birmingham, 4 June 2016 - Julie Boeten and Sien De Groot, Byzantine Book Epigrams: A Pragmatic Analysis of Medieval Meter.
Dialing Lecture, Gent, 2 June 2016 - Kristoffel Demoen, Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams.
Dumbarton Oaks, 3 May 2016 - Sien De Groot, Byzantine Book Epigrams: Poetry of Transmission.
U4 Winter School, Istanbul, 8-12 March 2016 - Julie Boeten, Byzantine Book Epigrams: A Pragmatic Analysis of Medieval Meter.
U4 Winter School, Istanbul, 8-12 March 2016
2015
- Maria Tomadaki, Βυζαντινά βιβλιακά επιγράμματα αφιερωμένα σε κείμενα και συγγραφείς της αρχαίας ελληνικής λογοτεχνίας / Book Epigrams on Texts and Authors of Ancient Greek Literature.
8th Meeting of Greek Byzantinists, Athens, 16-18 December 2015 - Mark Janse, The Principle of Pairing: A Cognitive Approach to Byzantine Versification.
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar, Oxford, 27 May 2015
2014
- Renaat Meesters, The Visual Representation of Paratexts in Byzantine Manuscripts. Case study: The Colophon Verse.
Ghent Institute for Classical Studies, Ghent, 24 October 2014 - Kristoffel Demoen, Metrische parateksten in Griekse manuscripten. Een elektronisch corpus en een tragisch voorbeeld.
Nederlandse Hellenistendag, Groningen, 24 January 2014
2013
- Renaat Meesters and Floris Bernard, Towards a Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams. Building a Contextual Corpus of Paratexts.
VIII. Colloque International de Paléographie Grecque, Hamburg, 26 September 2013 - Kristoffel Demoen, The ‘Bookishness’ of Epigrams on Authors and Texts.
International Conference "Greek Literary Epigram: From the Hellenistic to the Early Byzantine Era", London, 11-13 September 2013 - Renaat Meesters, Byzantine Book Epigrams as Living Texts. Meeting Points between Authors, Manuscripts and Readers.
U4 Winter School, Palermo, 6 March 2013
2012
- Kristoffel Demoen, Adscripta métriques dans les manuscrits byzantins.
EHESS, Paris, 12 February 2012
2011
- Kristoffel Demoen, Towards an on-line database of Byzantine book epigrams.
22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Round table "Instrumenta Studiorum", Sofia, 22-27 August 2011 - Floris Bernard, A Database of Poetic Paratexts in Byzantine Manuscripts: At the Threshold between Text and Context.
Conference From Ancient Manuscripts to the Digital Era. Readings and Literacies. UNIL, Lausanne, 24 August 2011
Events
For an overview of events organised by DBBE, please check our News and Events page.
Acknowledgements
We are much obliged to Ioannis Vassis for his help and support at different stages of our project as well as to Marina Detoraki, Marc Lauxtermann and Andreas Rhoby.
We are very grateful to Georgi Parpulov for his constant input and the numerous additions he has pointed to.
The Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung has granted our team members unrestricted access to their collection of digitized microfilms, allowing us for a much more accurate presentation of our occurrences.
We want to express our gratitude to the Academia Belgica in Rome, which over the course of the years has granted our collaborators scholarships and accommodation, as well as to the many Libraries and Monasteries around Europe where we have had the opportunity to consult manuscripts.
Also, we would like to thank all participants of our 2015 workshop for their constructive feedback, which greatly improved this database.
Finally, we are grateful to Mario D'Ambrosi, Matteo Di Franco, Elina Dobrynina, Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, Santo Lucà, Andrea Luzzi, Ilias Taxidis, Francesco Valerio and Niccolò Zorzi for sharing with us (their) publications and other information relevant to DBBE.
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