Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 16994
(formerly occ/103)

	εὐαγγελιστῶν τοὺς θεοπνεύ\|στους λόγους,
	τομαῖς διαι\|ρεθέντας ἐυεπιβόλοις
	καὶ \| τῆδε βίβλω τεχνικῶς ἠρ\|μωσμένους,
	ἅπας ἀκούων \| καὶ τρυφῶν καθημέραν·
	ἕστωσιν ὠσὶν τοὺς ὑποφω\|νουμένους·
	νικόλαον θαύ\|μαζε τῆς εὐβουλίας,
	τὸν ἀυ\|τὸν ἐπίσκοπον τὸν προρη\|θέντα,
	σπούδασμα πολλοῖς \| οὐ πρὶν ἐσπουδασμένον· \|
	καὶ σπουδάσαντα συντό\|\|νως προθυμίαις \|
	καὶ καλλι\|εργήσαντα κόσμοις ποικίλοις· \|
	τοὺς μὲν ξενίζει τοὺς ὁρῶντας \| ὡς ἔχει,
	τοῖς τοῦ θ(εο)ῦ δὲ ρήμασιν \| ψυχοτρόφοις·
	εὐεργετεῖ ἅπαντας \| ἀκροωμένους·

Type(s)	[1961] Εὐαγγελιστῶν τοὺς θεοπνεύστους λόγους (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	January 1037
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1650 [January 1037]
Place in Manuscript	f. 185v-186r
Person(s)	Patron Nikolaos (11th c.) - RGK: III.217 - VGH: 140.C (archiepiskopos of Rhegion < Calabria < Southern Italy < Italy) Scribe Theodoros (11th c.) - RGK: III.217 - VGH: 140.C
Palaeographical information	Written in Auszeichnungsmajuskel. 3 ἠρμωσμένους: o supra lineam.
Contextual information	The epigram is part of a cycle of book epigrams written on ff. 185v-186r. The epigram is written after 'ἡ πηγὴ ὧδε τῶν μαθητῶν τοῦ λόγου' and before 'ἐνταῦθα τὴν θέλγουσαν εἰκότως λύραν', without distinction.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Four Evangelists Nikolaos (11th c.) - RGK: III.217 - VGH: 140.C (archiepiskopos of Rhegion < Calabria < Southern Italy < Italy)
Image source(s)	http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/modules/papyri/?zoom=30&left=2&top=49&site=INTF&image=30623/0/3720/10/863
Bibliography	Primary K. Bentein, K. Demoen 2012, The Reader in Eleventh-Century Book Epigrams, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 69-88: 78-80 F. Bernard, K. Demoen 2019, Book epigrams, in A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas, W. Hörandner (eds.), A Companion to Byzantine Poetry, Leiden, 404-429: 418-419 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: 153 C. Giannelli, 1950, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 1485-1683 (vol. 5), Vatican City: 372 I. Hutter, 2022, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Corpus der Italogriechischen dekorierten Handschriften der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (vol. 6.1), Stuttgart: 109-110 K. Lake, S. Lake, 1937, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200. Manuscripts in Rome, part I (vol. 7), Boston: 15 R. Stefec 2011, Anmerkungen zu weiteren Epigrammen in epigraphischer Auszeichnungsmajuskel, Byzantion, 81, 326-361: 350 display 4 more references (7 in total) hide 4 references (7 in total) Secondary D. Bianconi 2013, Libri e paratesti metrici a Bisanzio nell’ XI secolo. In margine a una recente pubblicazione, Medioevo Greco. Rivista di storia e filologia bizantina. (MEG), 13, 297-314: 300-306 S. Lucà 2009, Sulla sottoscrizione in versi del Vat. gr. 2000 (ff. 1-154), in C. Braidotti, E. Dettori, E. Lanzillotta (eds.), Οὐ πᾶν ἐφήμερον. Scritti in memoria di Roberto Pretagostini, Rome, 275-308: 295-296 A. Roberts 2020, A Greek Alchemical Epigram in its Middle Byzantine Context, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 83, 1-36: 6
Number of verses	13
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Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung'. Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, Rachele Ricceri, Sien De Groot, Kristoffel Demoen, 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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