Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 16966
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	ἄλλο

	Οὐ(ρα)νίων θιάσων ἱεραρχία τάγματα μέλψας·
	μορφοφανῶν τε τύπων κρύφιον νόον εἰς φάος ἕλκων.
	ζωοσόφ(ων) λογίων θεοτέρπεα πυρσὸν ἀνάπτει:-

Type(s)	[2044] Οὐρανίων θιάσων ἱεράρχια τάγματα μέλψας (3 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	11th-12th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 2162 [11th-12th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 8v
Palaeographical information	The initials of the title and the first verse are written in red ink.
Contextual information	Immediately preceded by another epigram, inc. 'Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας'. Both epigrams introduce the work 'De Caelesti Hierarchia' by Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.2162/0011
Bibliography	Primary S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 76 S. Lilla, 1985, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 2162-2254 (codices Columnenses) (vol. 8), Vatican City: 2
Number of verses	3
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Sien De Groot Contributor(s) Sien De Groot, Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Renaat Meesters The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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