Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17034
(formerly occ/152)

	·:· οὐκ ἐκ σιών σοι π(άτ)ερ ἀλλ᾽ ὀυρανόθεν·
	ἤκει κομίζων τὴν θεόσδοτον ῥάβδον·
	ὁ χριστέραστος οὑ\|τοσὶ θεηγόρος· \|
	δέχου τὸ δῶρον σφρα\|γίδα προεδρίας· \|
	ἢ μᾶλλον εἰπεῖν ἰσχύ\|ος θείας ῥάβδον· \|
	ἐχθρῶν δ᾽ ἁπάντων \| κυριεύων ἐν μέσω·
	ὡς ὁ προφήτης πνεύ\|ματι ψάλλων γράφει,
	τὸν τῶν καλῶν αἴτι\|ον ὕμνει προφρό\|+νως·+.

Type(s)	[2042] Οὐκ ἐκ Σίων σοι, πάτερ, ἀλλ' οὐρανόθεν (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1057
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 74 [1057]
Place in Manuscript	f. 213r-213v
Person(s)	Scribe Theodoros of Kaisareia (11th c.) - RGK: I.131 - VGH: 138.E
Palaeographical information	Written in Auszeichnungsmajuskel.
Contextual information	The epigram accompanies a miniature representing St. John, on f. 213r: "a haloed saint identified as “John ὁ θεολόγος” hands a staff to another haloed figure in monastic dress who is called “the Lord Abbot”. God is represented through a blessing hand reaching out from a segment of heaven" (cf. Krausmüller (2006: 271)).
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram
Subject(s)	David John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Music
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10722121j/f421.item https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10722121j/f422.item
Bibliography	Primary S. Dufrenne 1967, Deux chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature du XIe siècle, Cahiers archéologiques, 17, 177-191: 190 D. Krausmüller 2006, Abbots and Monks in Eleventh-Century Stoudios: An Analysis of Rituals of Installation and Their Depictions in Illuminated Manuscripts, Revue des Études Byzantines, 64, 255-282: 271-276 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 125-126 I. Spatharakis, 1976, The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Leiden: 64 H. von Soden, 1902, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. Untersuchungen. Die Textzeuge (vol. 1.1), Berlin: 384
Number of verses	8
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Lisa-Lou Péchillon Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Cristina Cocola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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