Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17001
(formerly occ/115)

	※ εἰς εὐσύνοπτον τοῦ τελόνου τοὺς λόγους ※ \|
	※ τ\|ι\|θ\|εὶ\|ς \| ὁ \| χ\|ρ\|υ\|σ\|ο\|ῦ\|ς \| τ\|ὸ\|ν \| λό\|γ\|ο\|ν \| κ\|αὶ \| τ\|ὸ\|ν \| τ\|ρό\|π\|ο\|ν \| ※ \|
	※ αἰ\|τ\|εῖ \| σ\|ὺ\|ν \| α\|ὐ\|τ\|ῶ \| τ\|οῖ\|ς \| κ\|ρα\|τ\|ο\|ῦ\|σι \| τ\|ῶ\|ν \| κ\|ά\|τ\|ω \| ※ \|
	※ βίου γαλήνην καὶ μέθεξιν τῶν ἄνω ※

Type(s)	[1929] Εἰς εὐσύνοπτον τοῦ τελώνου τοὺς λόγους (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1026-1050
Manuscript	SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 364 [1026-1050]
Place in Manuscript	f. 2v
Person(s)	Patron Konstantinos IX Monomachos - PBW: Konstantinos/9/ - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PLP: - PMBZ: (basileus)
Palaeographical information	Epigram within frame, written in 'Epigraphische Auszeichnungsmajuskel'. To be read in the following order: top, right, left, bottom.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	John Chrysostom (saint) - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: Konstantinos IX Monomachos - PBW: Konstantinos/9/ - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PLP: - PMBZ: (basileus) Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ:
Comment	Accompanies a miniature depicting Matthew offering his Gospel to John Chrysostom. Unique epigram, occurs only in Sinait gr 364, a book of homilies of Chrysostom, commissioned by Constantine Monomachos and the two empresses Zoe and Theodora. Another image in Weitzmann (1990: fig. 184).
Image source(s)	https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00279380101-ms/?sp=5
Bibliography	Primary D. Harlfinger, D. Reinsch, J. Sonderkamp, G. Prato, 1983, Specimina Sinaitica. Die datierten griechischen Handschriften des Katharinen-Klosters auf dem Berge Sinai, 9. bis 12. Jahrhundert, Berlin: 23-24 A. Paul 2012, Historical Figures Appearing in Epigrams on Objects, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 89-112: 107-108 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 86-87 I. Spatharakis, 1976, The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Leiden: 100-101 K. Weitzmann, G. Galavaris, 1990, The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts. From the Ninth to the Twelfth Century (vol. 1), Princeton: 65-66
Number of verses	4
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Raf Praet - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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