| Text source |
C. Mazzucchi 1995, Leggere i classici durante la catastrofe (Costantinopoli, maggio-agosto 1203): le note marginali al Diodoro Siculo Vaticano gr. 130. Parte seconda: i dodecasillabi della terza mano e la personalità del loro autore, Aevum, 69(1), 200-258: 211
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| Text status |
Text completely known |
| Editorial status |
Not a critical text |
| Genre(s) |
Scribe-related epigram
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| Person(s) |
- Poet
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Niketas Choniates (1155 - 1217) - VGH: 337.E - PBW: Niketas/25001/
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| Metre(s) |
Dodecasyllable
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| Tag(s) |
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| Translation(s) |
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| Comment |
Mazzucchi (1995: 254-255) identifies the author as Niketas Choniates. Bértola (2021: 42) is more cautious: "Nothing invites the rejection of the postulated authorship of Niketas Choniates, but there is not enough evidence either to accept it without prudent hesitation." |
| Bibliography |
Secondary
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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: 39-42
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J. Bértola 2024, An Unedited Cycle of Byzantine Verse Scholia on Herodotus in the Light of Twelfth-Century Verse Scholia on Ancient Historians, in B. van den Berg, N. Zagklas (eds.), Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204). New Texts, New Approaches, Cambridge, 339-365: 347 (n. 37), 348 (n. 40)
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A. Kaldellis, 2015, Byzantine Readings of Ancient Historians, Abingdon and New York: 92-93
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| Number of verses |
2 |
| Occurrence(s) |
[34713] τὰ παιδία, ποῦ· ποῦ δε | καὶ σχῆµα µέγα
[1203]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 130 [942-975]
(f. 277r)
(2 verses)
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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, 711: "Scholium in Diodorum Siculum (5.35.3)"
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| Permalink |
https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/34710 |
