Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5630
(formerly typ/3688)

	Εἴ σε ποθὴ κατέχει, κλεινοῦ Πτολεμαίου βίβλον
	ἐκμαθέειν ἀνέρος, οὗ δὴ μέγα ἔπλετο κῦδος
	ἀμφὶ θεωρίης ἄστρων οὐρανιώνων,
	μὴ σύ γε τήνδε παραδραμέειν ἐθελήσειας βίβλον.

Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Ioannes Chortasmenos monkname Ignatios (1370 - 1436-1437) - RGK: I.191, II.252, III.315 - VGH: 158.D, 175.B, 203.A - PLP: XII.30897 (metropolites of Selymbria < Turkey)
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	Claudius Ptolemy (2nd c.)
Tag(s)	Introduction to the subject
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined H. Hunger, 1969, Johannes Chortasmenos (ca. 1370- ca.1436/37). Briefe, Gedichte und kleine Schriften. Einleitung, Regesten, Prosopographie, Text, Wien: 41 H. Hunger, C. Hannick, 1994, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Supplementum Graecum (vol. 4), Vienna: 127-128
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[22956] εἴ σε ποθὴ κατέχει, κλεινοῦ πτολεμαίου βίβλον [1401-1450] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - suppl. gr. 75 [1401-1450] (f. 234r) (4 verses)
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 196: "Ioann. Chortasmenus, In Ptolemaei syntaxin mathematicam"
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