Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 31080

	Εἴπερ θέλεις, ἄνθρωπε, καὶ δίχα πτίλων
	εἰς ὕψος ἐκ γῆς εὐχερῶς ἀνατρέχειν,
	τὸν Ἰωάννου τοῦτον ἐκμιμοῦ βίον,
	ὃς οὐρανοστήρικτος εὐρέθη κλίμαξ.

Title(s)	Στίχοι
Text source	DBBE (based on occurrence Εἴπερ θέλεις ἄν(θρωπ)ε κ(αὶ) δίχα πτίλων)
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Manuel Philes (1275-1345) - PLP: XII.29817
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	John Klimax (6th c. - 7th c.) - PMBZ: 13914: "Personenkennziffer: 2791"
Tag(s)	(Spiritual) advice to the reader Address to the reader Praise of the author Reference to content of the book
Comment	Lampros (1895: 180) provides the first three verses of the epigram from the eighteenth-century manuscript, Mone Esphigmenou 88.
Bibliography	Primary S. Lampros, 1895, Κατάλογος τῶν ἐν ταῖς βιβλιοθήκαις τοῦ Ἁγίου Ὄρους ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων (vol. 1), Cambridge: 180
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[31081] Εἴπερ θέλεις ἄν(θρωπ)ε κ(αὶ) δίχα πτίλων [1324] ATHOS - Mone Stauroniketa 30 [1324] (f. 8v) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2011, 191: "Manuel Philes, In Ioann. Climaci Scalam Paradisi"
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