Byzantine Poetry from Pisites to Geometers

The Poems of John Geometres Once Again 303 the 990s, Sa. 4 from the late tenth century, and Sa. 5 from 962–967, there is no reas ...

304 Appendix II The first nine folia of Esc. R. III. 17 (s. XIV) contain various poems by Philes^31. Then follows a small syllog ...

APPENDIX III John of Melitene The famous epitaph on Nikephoros Phokas by John of Melitene can be found in a number of Skylitzes ...

306 Appendix III di ARR^1 , perchè ci è parso che esso rivesta un carattere meno personale, e quindi sia più adatto per un’ epig ...

John of Melitene 307 belong to the same branch of the manuscript tradition. C and O usually offer the same readings, apart from ...

308 Appendix III Faced with an ungrammatical construction in his exemplar, he shuffled the words around, changed p@n Çqnoß into ...

John of Melitene 309 Skyq0n Çqnh só7foysin eœß óonoyrg5anº lehlato ̄si pansqen0ß tën sën pölin, 15 oÎß ™ptöei pròn kaò gegramm6n ...

310 Appendix III As for the second branch of the manuscript tradition, hyparchetype c, things are a bit more complicated. The le ...

John of Melitene 311 manuscripts, but without an ascription. N 7 is an epigram on St. Jacob the Persian and is found nowhere els ...

312 Appendix III Since there can be no doubt that N 1 and 8 were written by John of Melitene, it is reasonable to assume that N ...

John of Melitene 313 and (M 11) an epitaph to a certain Bardas^21. Despite their subject, not all these poems date from the tent ...

314 Appendix III M 1–4 ultimately originate from the archives of the Byzantine palace administration, for they are public monodi ...

John of Melitene 315 Athous Dion. 264 (s. XVII), fol. 337v, contains the following poems: (A 1) st5coi ärca¦oi to ̄ Melithnh eœß ...

316 Appendix III to ̄ aJto ̄ eœß tën Barb1ran [x] b1rbaroß no ̄ß Wstore¦ tën Barb1ranº 9 Barb1ra dê barb1roy mise¦ tröpoyߺ oJ B ...

APPENDIX IV Vat. Pal. gr. 367 Vat. Pal. gr. 367 (s. XIV in.), fols. 139r–146v, contains several poems dating from the tenth and ...

318 Appendix IV 40, 20; and 43, 20) can be found in the collections of riddles compiled by Psellos, Basil Megalomytes and others ...

Vat. Pal. gr. 367 319 Secondly, in the same year that Mercati was preparing his edition, Lam- bros also published the poems by M ...

320 Appendix IV Section (5) of Vat. Pal. gr. 367, fols. 143v–146v, bears the heading: to ̄ Ptr, which Lambros interprets as: to ...

Vat. Pal. gr. 367 321 The first six epigrams describe an image of the Virgin Paraklesis, which was donated by Constantine VII; s ...

322 Appendix IV Quatrains 17–23 describe a picture of the Archangel Michael, on which Christ, the Holy Virgin, John the Baptist ...