Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2571
(formerly typ/664)

	Ὡς ηὐδόκησεν ὁ κρατῶν στεφηφόρος,
	ὡς ἐγγράφως ὥρισεν, ὡς ἔδειξέ μοι,
	σπεύσας κατεσκεύασα τὴν πανοπλίαν.
	ταῦτ’ οὖν μαθόντες, οἱ κριταὶ τοῦ βιβλίου,
	στέργοιτε καὶ βάλοιτε ταῖς εὐφημίαις
	τὸν ἀγχίνουν τε καὶ μέγαν βασιλέα.
	τούτῳ γὰρ ἡ σύμπασα καὶ μόνῳ χάρις.
	εἰ γὰρ προσήκει τὴν ἀλήθειαν λέγειν,
	εὐμήχανον τὸ χρῆμα, πιπτέτω φθόνος.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Euthymios Zygabenos - PBW: Euthymios/120/
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Alexios I Komnenos (1057 - 15/08/1118) - PBW: Alexios/1/
Tag(s)	Dedication
Comment	In many manuscripts, this poem is immediately preceded by another epigram, inc. 'Πρόγραμμα βίβλου τῆσδε τῆς τῶν δογμάτων'. The two texts are not separated and were possibly meant to be read as one long poem. The epigram was translated into Slavonic in several 15th- and 16th-century manuscripts (cf. Parpulov 2022: 341 and Tsibranska-Kostova 2017: 9).
Bibliography	Secondary G. Parpulov 2022, Byzantine Book Epigrams in Medieval Slavonic Manuscripts, Palaeoslavica, 30(1-2), 335-344: 342 M. Tsibranska-Kostova 2017, Encomia in the Slavonic Сopies of Euthymius Zigabenos's Panoplia Dogmatike, Bulgarian Historical Review, 45(3-4), 3-23: 9 Bibliography category to be determined C. Neumann, 1971, Griechische Geschichtsschreiber und Geschichtsquellen im zwölften Jahrhundert. Studien zu Anna Comnena, Theod. Prodromus, Joh. Cinnamus, New York: 35 E. Stevenson, 1888, Codices manuscripti graeci Reginae Svecorum et Pii PP. II Bibliothecae Vaticanae, Rome: 27
Number of verses	9
Occurrence(s)	[24638] Ὡς ηὐδόκησ(εν) ὁ κρατῶν στεφηφόρος [1278] ATHENS - Byzantino kai Christianiko Mouseio 186 (B.M. 2801) [1278] () (2 verses) [24200] ὡς ηὐδόκησ(εν) ὁ κράτ(ων) στεφηφόρος [14th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 6, Cod. 10 [14th c.] (f. 1r) (9 verses) [21165] Ὡς ηὐδόκησεν ὁ κρατῶν στεφηφόρος [1201-1225] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana C 176 inf. [1201-1225] (f. 1r) (9 verses) [23562] ὡς ηὐδόκησε ὁ κρατῶν στεφηφόρος [15th c.] MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 49 (Vlad. 227) [15th c.] (f. 1r) (2 verses) [25857] Ὡς ηὐδόκησεν ὁ κρατῶν στεφηφόρος [1151-1200] MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 387 (Vlad. 224) [1151-1200] (f. 2v) (3 verses) [35486] Ὡς ηὐδόκησεν ὁ κρατῶν στεφηφόρος [13th c.] PATMOS - Mone tou Hagiou Ioannou tou Theologou 102 [13th c.] (f. 2r) (9 verses) [25544] Ὡς ηὐδόκησεν ὁ κρατῶν στεφηφόρο(ς) [13th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Palat. gr. 274 [13th c.] (f. 1v) (9 verses) [18121] Ὡς ηὐδόκησεν ὁ κρατ(ῶν) στεφηφόρ(ος) [1251-1300] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Reg. gr. 35 [1251-1300] (f. 4r) (9 verses) [24643] Ὡς ηὐδόκησεν ὁ κρατῶν στεφηφόρος [1126-1150] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 666 [1126-1150] (f. 4r) (9 verses) [24640] (...) [1305-1306] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 668 [1305-1306] (f. 1r) (2 verses) [24639] Ὡς ηὐδόκησεν ὁ κρατῶν στεφηφόρος [12th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 2172 [12th c.] (f. 2r) (9 verses) [22626] Ὡς ηὐδόκησεν ὁ κρατῶν στεφηφόρος [13th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - theol. gr. 76 [1191-1210] (f. 2r) (2 verses) display 9 more occurrences (12 in total) hide 9 occurrences (12 in total)
Related type(s)	[2265] Πρόγραμμα βίβλου τῆσδε τῆς τῶν δογμάτων (35 verses) (Same cycle) [2344] Ἡ βίβλος αὕτη τοῦ κρατίστου δεσπότου (30 verses) (Same cycle)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 901: "Euthym. Zigabenus, Praefatio in panopliam dogmaticam"
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