Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4587
(formerly typ/2663)

	Βησσαρίωνος ἀριπρεπέος τόδε σῆμα κεκεύθει
	σῶμα νέκυν τ' ἀρετῆς καὶ σοφίης ἁπάσης.
	Ψυχὴ δ' οὐκ ἀέκουσ' ἀνέβη μέγαν οὐρανὸν εἴσω
	ῥεῖα βιωσομένη χώρῳ ἐν εὐαέϊ.

Text source	É. Legrand, 1885, Bibliographie Hellénique ou description raisonnée des ouvrages publiés par des Grecs aux XVe et XVIe siècles (vol. 1), Paris: LXV
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Michael Apostoles Byzantios (1420 - 1474-1486) - RGK: I.278, II.379, III.454 - VGH: 305.B - PLP: I.1201
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Subject(s)	Basileios Bessarion (1399-1400 - 18/11/1472) - RGK: I.41, II.61, III.77 - VGH: 59.E - PLP: II.2707 (kardinalios)
Tag(s)	Death Epitaph
Bibliography	Secondary E. Martini, D. Bassi, 1906, Catalogus codicum graecorum Bibliothecae Ambrosianae (vol. 1), Milan: 615
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[33881] Βησσαρίωνος ἀριπρεπέος τόδε σῆμα κεκεύθει [1451-1500] MADRID - Biblioteca Nacional 4636 (olim N.115) [1451-1500] (f. 178v) (4 verses) [21095] Βησσαρίωνος ἀριπρεπέος τόδε σῆμα κεκεύθει [1451-1500] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana M 41 sup. [1426-1500] (f. 104r) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Lev Shadrin, Nina Sietis, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 103: "Michael Apostoles, Epitaphium in Bessarionem"
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