| Text source |
J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 980
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| Text status |
Text completely known |
| Editorial status |
Critical text |
| Genre(s) |
Text-related epigram
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| Person(s) |
- Poet
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Ephraim of Ainos < Thrace (13th c. - 14th c.) - PLP: III.6408
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| Metre(s) |
Dodecasyllable
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| Subject(s) |
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| Tag(s) |
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| Translation(s) |
Persia before brought to Christ, the Word, creator of mortals,
gifts, incense, gold and myrrh.
Now to you, emperor, the leaders of the Persian tribes (Arabs)
carry gold and stones and pearls,
among which there was an astonishing shining stone (lychnites),
truly bearing the shape of the cross,
in which an artful hand and a chisel with divine love
for the sake of beauty wove engraved letters.
There is nothing better than this, nor even equal, among the things in life.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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| Comment |
The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 30.90-2.
The epigram also occurs in Par. suppl. gr. 249 (f. 227r-v), where it does not function as a book epigram. |
| Bibliography |
Primary
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J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 141-143, 194-196
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E. Miller, 1881, Recueil des Historiens des Croisades. Historiens grecs (vol. 2), Paris: 175-176
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H. Wolf, 1557, Nicetae Acominati Choniatae, magni logothetae secretorum, inspectoris & iudicis veli, praefecti sacri cubiculi LXXXVI annorum historia, videlicet ab anno restitutae salutis circiter MCXVII, in quo Zonaras desinit, usque ad annum MCCIII, Libris XIX descripta … ex trium codicum laboriosa inter sese collatione, Basel: 15-16
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N. Zorzi 2001, La croce gemmata recuperata da Giovanni II Comneno a Shayzar (1138), Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata (BBGG), 55, 63-98: 72, 75
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| Number of verses |
9 |
| Occurrence(s) |
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| Acknowledgements |
The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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| Identification |
Vassis ICB 2005, 614: "Scholium in Historiam Nicetae Choniatae (de imagine s. crucis)"
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| Permalink |
https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/33670 |
