Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 29807

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	πάμπαν ἀβληχρὸς ἀδρανὴς πεπληγμένο(ς),
	γλῶσσαν προτείνω πρὸς σὲ τὴν ἀναξίαν·
	αιτοῦσαν αὐτοῦ, τὴν τομὴν ἐπαξίαν·
	Ἐπιτίμησον καλάμου τῶ θηρίω·
	καὶ φεύξεταί μου τοῦ συλᾶν νοῦν ἢ τρόπον·
	ὑπεξάγαγε τῆς ἀπάτης τοῦ βίου·
	καὶ κατάταξον εἰς μονὰς τῶν ἁγίων·
	ὡς ἂν ὑμνῶ κἀγώ σε σὺν τοῖς ἀγγέλοις,
	αζυξ μοναστὴς ἰωάννης σὸς λατρης·
	καὶ τῆς χοϊκῆς κομνηνῆς ῥίζης κλάδο(ς):~

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Type(s)	[29805] Τούτων ἁπάντων τῶν καλῶν, καλῶν δότα (134 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text partially unknown
Date	12th c.
Manuscript	MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 229 (Vlad. 192) [12th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 329r
Palaeographical information	The initials are written in red ink. Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram is written after the treatise 'To the Shepherd'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	Achilleus Devil Holy Trinity John Komnenos (12th c.)
Comment	Meesters - Ricceri (2018: 294): "The preceding folios are lost. However, it is probable that M (i.e. Moscow, Sinod. gr. 229) originally had the complete poem."
Bibliography	Primary Archimandrite Vladimir, X. Grichine, J. Johannet, 1995, Description systématique des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Synodale Patriarchale de Moscou. Grec 181 à grec 241 (vol. 3), Unknown: 238 R. Meesters, R. Ricceri 2018, A Twelfth-Century Cycle of Four Poems on John Klimax. Editio princeps, in A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas (eds.), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Texts and Contexts, Turnhout, 285-386: 358 Secondary R. Meesters, R. Ricceri 2018, A Twelfth-Century Cycle of Four Poems on John Klimax. Editio princeps, in A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas (eds.), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Texts and Contexts, Turnhout, 285-386: 289, 294
Number of verses	10
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Transcriber(s) Lev Shadrin 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.
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