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Type 5460
(formerly typ/3508)

	Καὶ τήνδε χρυσέρυθρον καὶ χρυσόμορφον
	τοῦ χρυσολαμποῦς καὶ σοφοῦ Χρυσοστόμου
	βίβλον ὑπερθαύμαστον σπουδῇ ἀνέγνω
	Κρήτης πρωτοθύτης τε ὁ Ἰωάννης,
	τοὐπίκλην Πλουσιαδηνός, ὁ καὶ ὁ ψάλτης.

Text source	M. Manousakas 1959, Recherches sur la vie de Jean Plousiadénos (Joseph de Méthone) (1429?-1500), Revue des Études Byzantines, 17, 28-51: 47
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Ioannes Plousiadenos of Crete < Greece (1429 - 09/08/1500) - RGK: I.176, II.234, III.294 - VGH: 185.H - PLP: X.23385 (archon, protopapas, psaltes, thytes)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Ioannes Plousiadenos of Crete < Greece (1429 - 09/08/1500) - RGK: I.176, II.234, III.294 - VGH: 185.H - PLP: X.23385 (archon, protopapas, psaltes, thytes) John Chrysostom (saint)
Tag(s)	Colophon Praise of the author Reference to content of the book Self-presentation
Comment	Text of Manoussakas (1959: 47) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography	Primary E. Mioni, 1972, Bibliothecae Divi Marci Venetiarum codices Graeci manuscripti. Codices in classes a prima usque ad quintam inclusi. Classis II, codd. 121-198, classes III, IV, V (vol. 1.2), Rome: 108
Number of verses	5
Occurrence(s)	[22427] Καὶ τήνδε χρυσόρρυθρον καὶ χρυσόμορφον [1426-1500] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. app. II 179 [10th c.] (f. 296r) (5 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Cristina Cocola, 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, 384: "Ioann. Plusiadenus, In calce libri Ioannis Chrysostomi"
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