Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5077
(formerly typ/3136)

Ἐσθλὸν ἀδελφόθεον τριτάτῃ ξύλῳ εἰκάδι πλῆξαν.

Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Christophoros of Mytilene < Lesbos < Greece - PBW: Christophoros/13102/
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	James (brother of the Lord) (1st c.)
Tag(s)	Reference to content of the book
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined M. Manousakas 1967, Μακαρίου Φιλαδελφείας τοῦ Χρυσοκεφάλου ἀνέκδοτα χρονικά σημειώματα (1344-1346) εἰς δύο αὐτόγραφους Μαρκιανούς κώδικας, Θησαυρίσματα, 4, 10-19: 13 A. Turyn, 1972, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Italy. Text (vol. 1), Urbana: 161
Number of verses	1
Occurrence(s)	[21827] ἐσθλὸν ἀδελφόθεον τριτάτη ξύλον εἰκάδι πλῆξεν [1346] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 83 (coll. 512) [1327] (f. 229v) (1 verse)
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 256: "Christ. Mitylenaeus, In s. Iacobum fratrem Domini apost. (Oct. 23)"
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