Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

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LONDON - British Library - Add. 18231

Content	Theologica > Gregorios of Nazianzos < Cappadocia (person page) Theologica > Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (person page)
Person(s)	Scribe Paulos (10th c.) - RGK: III.537 - VGH: 378.E - PMBZ: 28520: "Personenkennziffer: 26366" (monachos) Patron Eustratios (10th-11th c.)
Date	01/09/971-31/08/972
Origin	Calabria < Southern Italy < Italy
Bibliography	A. Cataldi Palau 1992, Manoscritti greci originari dell'Italia meridionale nel fondo "Additional" della British Library a Londra, Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata (BBGG), 46, 199-261: 239-243 S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 108 S. Lucà 1991, Scritture e libri della «scuola niliana», in G. Cavallo, G. De Gregorio, M. Maniaci (eds.), Scritture, libri e testi nelle aree provinciali di Bisanzio. Atti del Seminario di Erice (18-25 settembre 1988) (vol. 1), Spoleto, 319-387: 329, 336-337 S. Lucà 2024, La Calabria greca medievale nel riflesso del libro manoscritto: a mo’di introduzione, in Scrittura e immagini: Il Codex Purpureus Rossanensis e una selezione dei manoscritti greci medievali di Grottaferrata. Millenario dedicazione della Basilica di Santa Maria di Grottaferrata 1024 - 2024, Grottaferrata, 24-56: 51 n. 35 J. Mossay, 1987, Repertorium Nazianzenum. Orationes. Textus Graecus. Codices Americae, Angliae, Austriae (vol. 2), Paderbom: 50-51 V. Somers 1999, Quelques poèmes en l'honneur de S. Grégoire de Nazianze: édition critique, traduction et commentaire, Byzantion, 69(2), 528-564: 529 P. Toth, The Greek Church Fathers. display 4 more references (7 in total) hide 4 references (7 in total)
Identification	Diktyon (Pinakes) , 38944
Comment	Lucà (1991: 329, 336-337) rejects Paulos as the scribe of this manuscript. The scholar attributes the codex to an anonymous scribe from the 'scuola niliana', who copied it in 971/972 perhaps in the monastery of S. Adriano.
Occurrences	f. 4r [18752] αὕτη πέφυκε τ(ῶν) σοφ(ῶν) διδασκάλ(ων) [12th-13th c.] f. 16r [22529] Ἀγγελικ(ῆς) σοφίης ἀμαρύγματ(α) πολλὰ κιχήσ(ας) [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 30r [24797] ἀγγελικῶν γραφίδ(ων) \| ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 30r [24798] Σύμβολα θεσπεσί(ων) ἱερ(ῶν) ἑνοει\|δέι μύθω [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 30r [24799] οὐ(ρά)νου ἀστερό(εν)το(ς) ἔφυ σέλας ὃς μετ(ὰ) πότμον [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 50v [22533] Σύμβολα θεσπεσίων ἱερ(ῶν) ἑνοειδέϊ μύθω [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 50v [22537] Εἰς νόον αἰγλήεντα θεόγραφα χείλεα βάψας [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 77r [22542] Καὶ νό(ον) αἰγλήεν(τα) λείπ(ες) \| κ(αὶ) γνῶσ(ιν) ἐόντ(ων) [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 87r [22546] Ὑψιμέδων μάκαρ υἱέος ἀφθίτου γεννήτορ [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 87r [22550] Τριὰς μον(ὰς) ὁ θ(εὸ)ς ἵλαθί μοι τῶ ξύσαντι [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 87r [22552] Βροντῶν τὰ θεία τῆ βοῆ τῶν δογμάτων [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 87r [22554] Βίβλος πρόειμι δογμάτων θεηλόγων [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 87r [22556] Ἔθελξας εὖ με τοῖσδε τοῖς θεορρύτοις [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 87r-87v [22561] Εὔγνωστε π(άτ)ερ εὐσθενῆ σῶτερ μόνε [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 87v [22562] Εὐμαρίως ῥυέης με πάσης ἀλόγ(ο)υ λυμιαίης [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 87v [22574] Ὀφθαλμὸς ὀφθεὶς δογμάτ(ων) Γρηγόριε [01/09/971-31/08/972] f. 308v [22575] χ(ριστὸ)ς παράσχοι τοῖς ἐμοῖς πόνοις χάρι(ν) [01/09/971-31/08/972] display 14 more occurrences (17 in total) hide 14 occurrences (17 in total)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Sien De Groot, Ilse De Vos, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Eleonora Lauro The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.

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