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Occurrence 19738
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	εὐκλείδης. νόον ὄξυν᾽ ἀειζώοις γραμμαῖσι·
	πάντά τε ἀτρεκέως ἐξερέεινε βροτοῖς
	ὁππόσα μήσατο τηλεθόωσα φύσις συμβαίνειν
	σχημασιν ἠδ᾽ ὄγκοις· θειμέλιόν γε τόδε
	πάσης μὲν τεκτηνάμενος σοφίης. κόσμωι δὲ
	παντὶ ἑῆς προλιπὼν σύμβολον εὐμαθίης :-

Type(s)	[3613] Εὐκλείδης νόον ὀξὺν ἀειζώοις γραμμαῖσι (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	888
Manuscript	OXFORD - Bodleian Library - D'Orville 301 [888]
Place in Manuscript	f. 387v
Person(s)	Patron Arethas (9th c. - 10th c.) - VGH: 41.T, 404.E - PMBZ: 22707: "Personenkennziffer: 20554" (episkopos of Kaisareia < Cappadocia) Scribe Stephanos (9th c.) - RGK: I.365 - VGH: 404.E - PMBZ: 29392: "Personenkennziffer: 27238"
Palaeographical information	Written in Alexandrinische Auszeichnungsmajuskel.
Contextual information	Written at the end of the book, after a colophon in prose were scribe and patron are named.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Euclid (4th c. BC - 3rd c. BC)
Comment	Madan (1897: 104) gives only the incipit.
Image source(s)	https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/d4a23501-0b98-4aff-acd6-fe06fe9b62e3/surfaces/9f8d459b-8917-493a-97c3-185cbb61d79a
Bibliography	Primary J. D'Orville, T. Gaisford, 1806, Codices manuscripti et impressi cum notis manuscriptis olim d'Orvilliani qui in bibliotheca Bodleiana apud Oxonienses adservantur., Oxford: 77 F. Madan, 1897, A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been Catalogued in the Quarto Series with References to the Oriental and Other Manuscripts. Collections received during the first half of the 19th Century: n° 16670-24330 (vol. 4), Oxford: 104
Number of verses	6
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Acknowledgements	Information on the occurrence courtesy of Georgi Parpulov. Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Julián Bértola Contributor(s) Julián Bértola, Rachele Ricceri, Renaat Meesters, Ilse De Vos The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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