Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17031
(formerly occ/149)

	+ τὸ θαῦμα καινὸν ὧδε τῶν ὁρωμένων·
	χριστὸς προτείνει δεξιᾶ ζωηφόρω
	ἐξ οὐρανοῦ τὸ στέμμα σύμβολον κράτους.
	πιστῶ κραταιῶ δεσπότη βασιλείω·
	κάτωθεν οἱ πρώτιστοι τῶν ἀσωμάτων.
	ὁ μὲν λαβὼν ἤνεγκε καὶ χαίρων στέφει·
	ὁ δὲ προσάπτων τῶ κράτει καὶ τὰς νίκας·
	ῥομφαῖαν· ὅπλον ἐκφοβοῦν ἐναντίους.
	φέρων δίδωσι χειρὶ τῆ τοῦ δεσπότου·
	οἱ μάρτυρες δὲ συμμαχοῦσιν ὡς φίλω,
	ῥίπτοντες ἐχθροὺς τοὺς ποσὶ προκειμένους·

Type(s)	[2086] Τὸ θαῦμα καινὸν ὧδε τῶν ὁρωμένων (11 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	976-1025
Manuscript	VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 17 (coll. 421) [1001-1025]
Place in Manuscript	f. IIv
Person(s)	Patron Basileios II (958 - 15/12/1025) - PMBZ: 22991: "Personenkennziffer: 20838" (basileus)
Palaeographical information	Ševčenko (1962: 272): 'written in semiuncal letters'.
Contextual information	Lauxtermann (2003: 348): 'the poem corresponds with a miniature on f. IIIr (depicting Basil II, archangels, military saints and Christ above)'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram
Subject(s)	Archangel Basileios II (958 - 15/12/1025) - PMBZ: 22991: "Personenkennziffer: 20838" (basileus) Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33)
Image source(s)	Rhoby (2018: 682) http://www.internetculturale.it/jmms/iccuviewer/iccu.jsp?id=oai%3A193.206.197.121%3A18%3AVE0049%3ACSTOR.240.9608&mode=all&teca=marciana&viewType=onepage&mediaType=image&objectIndex=21
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Number of verses	11
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Maria Tomadaki, Lotte van Olmen, Floris Bernard The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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