Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 16968
(formerly occ/76)

	ἄλλο

	Οὐ(ρα)νοῡ (?) ἀστερόεντος ἔφυ σέλας· ὃς μετὰ πό\|(..)ον
	ζωοτόκων λογίων προλιπὼν θεο\|(…)τορας ὕμνους·
	ἀν(θρώπ)ους ἐδίδαξεν ἰδεῖν \| θεὸν (?) αἰὲν ἐόντα :

Type(s)	[2505] Οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος ἔφυ σέλας, ὃς μετὰ πότμον (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. 53r
Palaeographical information	The title is written in the right margin. The initials of the title and the first verse are written in red ink. The left side of the folium is damaged, which makes the first letters of each line hard to read.
Contextual information	Follows immediately after another epigram, inc. 'Σύμβολα θεσπεσίων ἱερῶν ἑνοειδεῖ μύθω'. Both epigrams introduce the work 'De Ecclesiastica Hierarchia' by Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.2162/0055
Bibliography	Primary S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 78 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 The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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