Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 37042

	Ὁ Μαυριανὸς ἡ κιβωτὸς τῶν λόγων
	ὑπνοῖ, θεατὰ, τὸν σιγῆς οἰκῶν λίθον,
	ἄλλ' οὺ σιγᾷ· στίχον γὰρ κἀντούτῳ λέγει,
	ὡς πάντα καπνὸς ἀρετῆς ἄνευ μόνης.

Text source	DBBE (based on occurrence ὁ μαυριανὸς ἡ κιβωτὸς τῶν λόγων)
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Emmanuel Maurianos (15th c.) - RGK: III.191 - VGH: 118.C - PLP: VII.17415
Tag(s)	Death
Bibliography	Primary T. Martínez Manzano 2010, Los manuscritos griegos de Salamanca: del humanismo italiano al helenismo español, in A. Bravo García, I. Pérez Martín (eds.), The Legacy of Bernard de Montfaucon: Three Hundred Years of Studies on Greek Handwriting. Proceedings of the Seventh International Colloquium of Greek Palaeography (Madrid - Salamanca, 15-20 September 2008) (vol. 1), Turnhout, 545-555: 549 T. Martínez Manzano, 2015, Historia del fondo manuscrito griego de la Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca: 135 A. Tovar, 1963, Catalogus codicum Graecorum Universitatis Salamantinae. Collectio Universitatis antiqua (vol. 1), Salamanca: 66-67
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[37041] ὁ μαυριανὸς ἡ κιβωτὸς τῶν λόγων [01/09/1422-31/08/1423] SALAMANCA - Biblioteca Universitaria 280 (1-2-23) [01/09/1422-31/08/1423] (f. 164v) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Information on the type courtesy of Georgi Parpulov. Creator(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 2011, 244: "Librarii nota"
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