Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 30828

	Ὁ παμβέβηλος οὑτοσὶ βιβλογράφος
	ἀντιγραφεὺς ἦν τῶν ἐμῶν συγγραμάτων
	γράφων τὰ πλείω τοῖς ἐμοῖς ἐναντίως·
	καὶ τὸν γέροντα καὶ τόσον φαυλογράφον,
	νῦν ἑβδομηκάζοντα τῷ ζωῆς ἔτει
	ὠθῶν ἀνορθοῦν σφᾶς γραφὰς λεπτογράφους
	θολὸν παραιρῶν ὀπτικῆς θεωρίας.

Title(s)	Ioannes Tzetzes, in scribam codicis
Text source	A. Pizzone 2020, Self-authorization and Strategies of Autography in John Tzetzes: The Logismoi Rediscovered, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS), 60(4), 652-690: 680
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Tag(s)	Complaint Criticism of the scribe Intercession by author Praise of the author Self-presentation
Translation(s)	This utterly profane scribe was the copyist of my treatises: he writes most of the time contrary to my text; and this old man, with his very bad handwriting, now in the seventieth year of his life, he forces him to correct his own neatly traced letters, cleansing the visual outlook from the dirt. Language English Source(s) A. Pizzone, John Tzetzes in the margins of the Voss. Gr. Q1: discovering autograph notes of a Byzantine scholar (posted on: 2020-02-04). This wholly sacrilegious scribe was the copyist of my treatises: he writes most of the time contrary to my text; and this old man, with his very bad handwriting, now in the seventieth year of his life, he forces to correct his own neatly traced letters, removing the dirt from his very sight. Language English Source(s) A. Pizzone 2020, Self-authorization and Strategies of Autography in John Tzetzes: The Logismoi Rediscovered, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS), 60(4), 652-690: 680
Bibliography	Primary A. Pizzone, John Tzetzes in the margins of the Voss. Gr. Q1: discovering autograph notes of a Byzantine scholar (posted on: 2020-02-04).
Number of verses	7
Occurrence(s)	[30830] ὁ παμβέβηλο(ς) οὑτοσὶ βιβλογράφο(ς) [1151-1200] LEIDEN - Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit - Voss. gr. Q° 1 [1151-1200] (f. 115v) (7 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout 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.
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