Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17046
(formerly occ/163)

	τὸν τῆς νομικῆς \| ἱεραρχίας τρόπον∙ \|
	ἧς ζαχαρίας ἡμφί\|εστο τὴν χάριν· \|
	λουκᾶς ὁ θεῖος ἱστό\|ρησε παγκάλως· \|
	ἐχρῆν γὰρ ἀυτὸν ἐν \| λόγοις τεθραμμέν(ον)· \|
	γραφήν τε πᾶσαν ἐ\|ξόχως ἠσκημένο(ν)· \|
	μὴδὲν παρεῖναι τῶν \| ἀναγκαίων ὅλως· \|
	ἀλλ᾽ ευφραδεία καὶ \| πλατει νοημάτων, \|
	πολυτελῆ μάλιστα \| δεῖξαι τὸν λόγον· \|
	οὔκουν ἀποπρέπον\|τος οὐδ᾽ ὁ ζωγράφος· \|
	τὸν τῆς μονῆς πρόε\|δρον ἑστῶτα γράφει· \|
	καὶ λαμβάνοντα χερ\|σὶν ἱερωμέναις· \|
	τὸ τῆς στολῆς γνώρι\|σμα τῶν ἱερέων·

Type(s)	[2103] Τὸν τῆς νομικῆς ἱεραρχίας τρόπον (12 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. 165r
Person(s)	Scribe Theodoros of Kaisareia (11th c.) - RGK: I.131 - VGH: 138.E
Palaeographical information	Written in Auszeichnungsmajuskel. The epigram comments a miniature on f. 164v, now lost.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram
Subject(s)	Luke (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Comment	Spatharakis (1976: 65-66) gives the text in capital letters, without diacritics.
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10722121j/f329.item.zoom
Bibliography	Primary A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 124-125 I. Spatharakis, 1976, The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Leiden: 65-66 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	12
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Lisa-Lou Péchillon Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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