Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 31299

	+ ὦ τῶν ἁπάντων ποιητ(ῶν) ἡδυλόγε,
	ὅμηρε χρυσὲ μουσάων λίαν φίλε,
	ὄντως ἀπὸ γλώσσης σοι ἐκχεῖται μέλι,
	καὶ ῥὰ μελιχρῶς ὡς τὰ μὴ ὄντα ὄντα,
	τίθης καὶ ποιεῖς ἄγαν ἡδέ(ως) πάντα·
	ὅθ(εν) σε κρείττω τῶν ποιητ(ῶν) ἁπάντων,
	σοφοί τε πάντες καλέουσιν εἰκότως:-

Type(s)	[31298] Ὦ τῶν ἁπάντων ποιητῶν ἡδυλόγε (7 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1449
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1314 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 15v
Person(s)	Scribe Andronikos Kallistos (15th c.) - RGK: I.18, II.25, III.31 - VGH: 30.F - PLP: V.10484
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of the Batrachomyomachia.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Homer (8th c. BC) Nine Muses
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1314/0017
Bibliography	Secondary A. Diller 1967, Three Greek Scribes Working for Bessarion: Trivizias, Callistus, Hermonymus, Italia medioevale e umanistica, 10, 403-410: 406-407 D. Harlfinger, 1974, Specimina griechischer Kopisten der Renaissance. Griechen des 15. Jahrhunderts (vol. 1), Berlin: (image: plate 45)
Number of verses	7
Acknowledgements	Information on the occurrence courtesy of Krystina Kubina. Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout 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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