Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3497
(formerly typ/1616)

	Ὧδε πέρας λάβεν ἡ Ξενοφῶντος βίβλος ἀρίστη
	παιδείην γε Κύροιο καλῶς μάλα διεξιοῦσα,
	χειρὶ Γεωργίου γραφεῖσα τοῦ Χρυσοκόκκη,
	Φιλέλφου δ᾽ ἀναλώμασι τοῦ Φραγκίσκοιο κλῆσιν.

Text source	É. Legrand, 1892, Cent-dix lettres grecques de François Filelfe, Paris: 133
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet George Chrysokokkes (15th c.) - RGK: II.95, III.127 - VGH: 86.G - PLP: XII.31141 (diakonos)
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	Cyrus II the Great (590 BC - 530 BC) Franciscus Philelphus (1398-1481) - RGK: II.520, III.606 - VGH: 105.B - PLP: XII.29803 George Chrysokokkes (15th c.) - RGK: II.95, III.127 - VGH: 86.G - PLP: XII.31141 (diakonos) Xenophon of Athenai < Attike < Greece (430 BC - 354 BC)
Tag(s)	Colophon Completion of the book Reference to content of the book Self-presentation
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 284 Secondary N. Aschenbrenner, K. Kubina 2022, Word as Bond in an Age of Division: John Eugenikos as Orator, Partisan, and Poet, Speculum, 97(4), 1101-1143: 1126
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[19408] Ὧδε πέρας λάβεν ἡ ξενοφῶντος βίβλος ἀρίστη [1427] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 55, Cod. 19 [1427] (f. 230v) (4 verses)
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, 882: "Georg. Chrysococces, Subscriptio (Laur. 55.19)"
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