Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 33760

	Κιβωτὸς ὦδε κατακλυσμὸς ὑδάτων·
	κόρακες ἄλλοι Νῶε καὶ πανσπερμία·
	καὶ ῥῆμα παλαίφατον εἰς πέρας τρέχει·
	σκηνὴ κιβωτὸς τῶν ἀνακτόρων νέα·
	ῥαγδαιοτάτων ἀπλετάτων ὑδάτων,
	χύσις, ὕσις, σύρροια, τῆς σκηνῆς κλύσις·
	ἀρχηγέτης δὲ Νῶε, τῶν ἀστῶν ἄναξ·
	βουνῶν κοράκων τῶν παρωνυμουμένων
	μέσον πεσὼν, ἔστησε τοὺς μακροὺς δρόμους·
	ἡ δ’ αὖ ἀπείρου στρατιᾶς πανσπερμία
	τὸν ἀνδριάντα τῆς στρατηγίας νέκυν
	πρὸς τὴν βασιλεύουσαν ἀνάγει πόλιν.

Title(s)	Scholium in Nicetae Choniatae historiam (41.7-16)
Text source	J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 988-989
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Ephraim of Ainos < Thrace (13th c. - 14th c.) - PLP: III.6408
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Ioannes II Komnenos (1087 - 1143) - PBW: Ioannes/2/ Noah
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book Scholium
Translation(s)	Here is the ark, the flood of waters, other crows, Noah and the variety of species. And the old prophecy is being fulfilled: the royal camp is the new ark; the stream of most furious, immeasurable waters, the rain, the accumulation of water is the inundation of the camp; and the leader Noah is the king of citizens, who, falling in the middle of the mountains so-called “crows”, stopped a long course; and in turn the variety of the immense army brings the deceased, a model of military command, back to the imperial city. Language English Source(s) J. Bértola 2021, Ephraim of Ainos at work: a cycle of epigrams in the margins of Niketas Choniates, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 114(3), 929-1000: 989 Here is the ark, the flood of waters, other crows, Noah and the variety of species. And the old prophecy is being fulfilled: the royal camp is the new ark; the stream of most furious, immeasurable waters, the rain, the accumulation of water is the inundation of the camp; and the leader Noah is the king of citizens, who, falling in the middle of the mountains, the so-called “crows”, stopped a long course; and in turn the variety of the immense army brings the deceased, a model of military command, back to the imperial city. Language English Source(s) J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 154
Comment	The poem comments on Niketas Choniates' History 41.7-16. The epigram also occurs in Par. suppl. gr. 249 (f. 230v), where it does not function as a book epigram.
Bibliography	Primary J. Bértola 2021, Using Poetry to Read the Past. Unedited Byzantine Verse Scholia on Historians in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts, Gent: 153-154, 216-219 H. Wolf, 1557, Nicetae Acominati Choniatae, magni logothetae secretorum, inspectoris & iudicis veli, praefecti sacri cubiculi LXXXVI annorum historia, videlicet ab anno restitutae salutis circiter MCXVII, in quo Zonaras desinit, usque ad annum MCCIII, Libris XIX descripta … ex trium codicum laboriosa inter sese collatione, Basel: 22
Number of verses	12
Occurrence(s)	[35306] κιβωτὸς ὧδε κατα\|κλυσμὸς ὑδάτων [06/03/1555] DILLINGEN AN DER DONAU - Fürstlich und Gräflich Fuggersches Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv 159A [06/03/1555] (p. 29) (12 verses) [35305] κιβωτὸ(ς) \| ὦδε κατακλυσ\|μὸς ὑδάτων [16th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1722 [16th c.] (f. 20r-20v) (12 verses) [35302] κιβωτὸς ὦδε κατακλυσμὸ(ς) ὑδάτ(ων) [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 168 [13th-14th c.] (f. 20r) (12 verses) [35303] κιβωτὸ(ς) ὦδε κατα\|κλυσμὸ(ς) ὑδάτ(ων) [1301-1350] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 53 [1301-1350] (f. 20v) (12 verses) [35304] κιβωτὸς ὦδε κατακλυσμὸς ὑδάτ(ων) [15th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - hist. gr. 105 [14th-15th c.] (f. 20v) (12 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Julián Bértola 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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