This project investigates the intellectual exchanges of the early Palaiologan period by analysing Byzantine book epigrams preserved in manuscripts dated ca. 1280–1350, treating paratexts as a key means of tracing patterns and settings of manuscript production in a period from which an exceptionally rich corpus of books survives. Focusing on figures connected with the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Imperial court, it will map networks of authors, scribes, and patrons, and examine how epigrammatic production both articulates and engages with theological and philosophical debates.