Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17048
(formerly occ/165)

	ΕὙρὼν ὁ χ(ριστὸ)ς ἀγάπην ξυνωρίδα
	ΔΌξης ὑμᾶς ἔπλησε τῆς σκηπτουχίας
	ΚΊνημα τοῦτο καὶ βάσις οὐρανία
	Ἀσύγκριτός τε καὶ ξένως νοουμένη
	Ἣ νῶ νοεῖται τὰ ξένα δεδορκότι:
	ΔΈΛτοις προσαθροῦντί τε πνευματορρύτοις
	ΤΟΣαῦτα τοίνυν ἐκπονοῦντες ἐμφρόνως
	ἌΥλον ὄντως εὕρατε κληρουχίαν
	Γήινον ἐκπτύσαντες ἅπαντα πόθον:
	Ὅθεν στέφει νῦν ὡραΐζεσθε κράτους:·
	Ὕμνοις τε πᾶσι καὶ βίβλοις θεοτρόποις
	Σὺν τοῖς καταστράπτουσι παισὶ τῶ στέφει:
	Τοῖς πορφύρας τε τοῖς σελασφόροις κλά[δοις]
	Ἤκουσας ὤ δέσποινα καὶ κοσμοκράτορ
	Σοὶ ταῦτα πάντα καὶ διὰ σὲ τυγχάνει
	Παρίσταται δέ και χορὸς τῶν ἁγίων
	Ἐμπαρέχων σοι τὰς θεογράφους βίβλους·
	Λύσαις ἄνασσα τὸν ζόφον τὸν τῆς λύπης
	Εἰς φῶς μὲ τὸν σὸν ἱκέτην καλλιγράφον
	Ἴθυνον εὐόδωσον οἷς οἶδας τρόποις +

Type(s)	[3693] ΕὙρὼν ὁ Χριστὸς ἀγα[θ]ὴν ξυνωρίδα (20 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1061-1067
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 922 [1061-1067]
Place in Manuscript	f. 5v
Person(s)	Patron Eudokia Makrembolitissa (11th c.) - PBW: Eudokia/1/
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	Eudokia Makrembolitissa (11th c.) - PBW: Eudokia/1/ Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Konstantinos X Doukas - PBW: Konstantinos/10/ Konstantios Doukas (1060 - 18/10/1081) - PBW: Konstantios/61/ Michael VII Doukas Parapinakes (1050 - 1090) - PBW: Michael/7/ Theotokos
Comment	The initial letters of each verse form an metrical acrostic dedicated to empress Eudokia Makrembolissa.
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10723483d/f12.item
Bibliography	Primary J. Boeten, S. De Groot 2022, Verzen uit de marge (gehaald): een introductie op Byzantijnse boekepigrammen, Tetradio - Tijdschrift van het Griekenlandcentrum, 30, 11-34: 25-28 B. De Montfaucon, 1708, Palaeographia graeca sive de ortu et progressu literarum graecarum, Paris: 295-296 W. Hörandner 1990, Visuelle Poesie in Byzanz, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB), 40, 1-42: 19-20 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 141-143 I. Spatharakis, 1976, The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Leiden: 103 Secondary J. Anderson 2008, Eudokia Makrembolitissa's Orthodox Miscellany: Cod. Paris. gr. 922, Δέλτιον τῆς Χριστιανικῆς Ἀρχαιολογικῆς Ἑταιρείας, 29, 17-22: 18 F. Bernard, K. Demoen 2019, Book epigrams, in A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas, W. Hörandner (eds.), A Companion to Byzantine Poetry, Leiden, 404-429: 410
Number of verses	20
Related occurrence(s)	[36559] τὸν ἐμπεσον(...) συμφορ(...) δειν(ῶν) σάλ(...) [13th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 117r) (3 verses) (1/20) [16988] Τὸν οὐρανὸν τίς δημιουργεῖ τῷ λόγῳ [11th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 513 [11th c.] (f. 1v) (12 verses) (1/20)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Delphine Nachtergaele, Maria Tomadaki The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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Occurrence 17048 (formerly occ/165)

Occurrence 17048
(formerly occ/165)