Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 16949
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	+ τοὺς μαργάρους σου τῶν λόγων χρυσοῖς λόγοις
	κεραννύων ἄριστα καὶ περιπλέκων
	χριστοῦ μαθητὰ σὸς μαθητὴς εἰκότως
	ἔδειξε πολλῶ μᾶλλον εὐπρεπεστέρους·
	ἄρρητον ὥραν ἡδονὴν ψυχῶν ξένην
	νύμφης τε χ(ριστο)ῦ κάλλος οὐκ έχων κόρον
	οὓς καὶ ποθήσας σὸς λάτρης κωνσταντῖνος
	λήθην τὲ νικᾶν καὶ χρόνου φθορὰν θέλων
	εἰς τοῦτο καινὸν ἐγχαράττει βιβλίον
	τοῖς εὐσεβοῦσι πρᾶγμα μυρίου πόθου

Type(s)	[2105] Τοὺς μαργάρους σου τῶν λόγων χρυσοῖς λόγοις (10 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	11th c.
Manuscript	ATHENS - Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados 2553 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 1v
Person(s)	Patron Konstantinos (11th c.) (latres)
Palaeographical information	Written in 'epigraphic distinctive majuscule'. Marava-Chatzinicolaou (1997: 157): 'An epigram within a golden frame (...). The border is decorated with a close series of trefoil ornaments in alternating blue and red colours with white linear edges. The epigram is written in large calligraphic gold letters'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	John Chrysostom (saint) Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Bibliography	Primary F. Euangelatou-Notara, 1982, Σημειώματα ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων ὡς πηγὴ διὰ τὴν ἔρευναν τοῦ οἰκονομικοῦ καὶ κοινωνικοῦ βίου τοῦ Βυζαντίου ἀπὸ τοῦ 9ου αἰῶνος μέχρι τοῦ ἔτους 1204, Athens: 182 A. Marava-Chatzinikolaou, C. Toufexi-Paschou, 1997, Catalogue of the Illuminated Byzantine Manuscripts of the National Library of Greece. Homilies of the Church Fathers and Menologia 9th-12th Century (vol. 3), Athens: 157-158 R. Stefec 2011, Anmerkungen zu weiteren Epigrammen in epigraphischer Auszeichnungsmajuskel, Byzantion, 81, 326-361: 329
Number of verses	10
Related occurrence(s)	[17544] τοὺς μαργάρους σου τῶν λόγων χρυσοῖς λόγοις [11th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 66 [11th c.] (f. Iv) (10 verses) (9/10) [21424] Τοὺς μαργάρους σου τῶν λόγων χρυσοῖς λόγοις [11th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 67 [11th c.] (f. 1v) (10 verses) (10/10) [17545] τοὺς μαργάρους σου τῶν λόγων χρυσοῖς λόγοις [11th c.] SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 366 [11th c.] (f. 2v) (10 verses) (9/10) [17546] τοὺς μαργάρους σου τῶν λόγων χρυσοῖς λόγοις [11th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - suppl. gr. 4 [11th c.] (f. 5r) (10 verses) (9/10)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Julie Boeten, Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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