Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6892
(formerly typ/4793)

	Ἐμῶν ὁμαίμων Ἀνδρονίκῳ λοισθίῳ
	εἰς πέντε φωνὰς τόνδ' ἐγραψάμην πόνον
	ὁ γραμματικὸς ὁ Τζέτζης Ἰωάννης.
	Ἐπιγραφῆς τρίγωνον ἐστὶ τὸ σχῆμα·
	οἵου γὰρ ἂν ἄρξοιτο τίς τούτων στίχου
	βλάψει κατ' οὐδὲν ἀνάγνωσιν φίλος.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	John Tzetzes (12th c.) - PBW: Ioannes/459/
Tag(s)	Dedication Reference to content of the book Self-presentation
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined C. Harder 1895, Johannes Tzetzes' Kommentar zu Porphyrius περὶ πέντε φωνῶν, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 4, 314-318: 314 W. Hörandner 1990, Visuelle Poesie in Byzanz, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB), 40, 1-42: 5 H. Hunger, 1961, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Codices Historici. Codices Philosophici et Philologici (vol. 1), Vienna: 394 S. Lampros 1905, Τρίγωνα Επιγράμματα, Νέος Ελληνομνήμων, 2, 166-168: 166-167
Number of verses	6
Occurrence(s)	[32122] Ἐμῶν ὁμαίμων Ἀνδρονίκω λοισθίω [1291-1310] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. III AA 6 [1291-1310] (f. 59v) (6 verses) [25814] ἐμῶν ὁμαίμων ἀνδρονίκω λοισθίω [14th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - phil. gr. 300 [14th c.] (f. 63r) (6 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 224: "Ioann. Tzetzes, Dedicatio commentarii sui in Porphyrii Isagogen (forma triangulari)"
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