Type(s) |
[1929] Εἰς εὐσύνοπτον τοῦ τελώνου τοὺς λόγους
(4 verses)
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Text source |
DBBE
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Text status |
Text completely known |
Date |
1026-1050 |
Manuscript |
SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 364 [1026-1050]
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Place in Manuscript |
f. 2v |
Person(s) |
- Patron
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Konstantinos IX Monomachos - PBW: Konstantinos/9/ - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PLP: - PMBZ: (basileus)
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Palaeographical information |
Epigram within frame, written in 'Epigraphische Auszeichnungsmajuskel'.
To be read in the following order: top, right, left, bottom. |
Metre(s) |
Dodecasyllable
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Genre(s) |
Patron-related epigram
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Subject(s) |
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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
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Bibliography |
Primary
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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
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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
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A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 86-87
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I. Spatharakis, 1976, The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Leiden: 100-101
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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
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Number of verses |
4 |
Acknowledgements |
The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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Permalink |
https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/17001 |