Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17074
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	Λαμπτὴρ νοητὸς \| τῆς ὅλης ὑφηλιω∙ \|
	μάρκε προδειχθεὶς \| καὶ λόγου κήρυξ μέγας \|
	φρούρει διονύσιον \| ὡς σὸν οἰκέτην·

Type(s)	[2007] Λαμπτὴρ νοητὸς τῆς ὅλης ὑφηλίου (3 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	876-925
Manuscript	MESSINA - Biblioteca Universitaria F.V. 18 [876-925]
Place in Manuscript	f. 81v
Palaeographical information	Written in gold ink.
Contextual information	The epigram precedes the Gospel of Mark. This ms. has three poems with the name Dionysios ('Λαμπτὴρ νοητὸς τῆς ὅλης ὑφʹ ἡλίῳ,'; 'Εὐαγγελιστὴς ἐκ τελώνου φωσφόρος'; 'Ψυχῶν ἀκέστωρ εὐσθενὴς καὶ σωμάτων'). Perria (1994: 98) suggests this Dionysios to be the sponsor of the ms. or someone to whom the ms. was dedicated; 'una figura di un certo rilievo'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Dionysios (11th c.) - VGH: 111.I Mark (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Comment	This poem has three verses, whereas the other epigrams in this ms. have more. Perria (1994: 97) suspects some verses are missing; 'visto che - a differenza degli altri due - non comprende alcun accenno biografico all'evangelista'.
Image source(s)	http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/modules/papyri/?zoom=40&left=6&top=53&site=INTF&image=30420/0/1640/10/900
Bibliography	Primary F. Euangelatou-Notara, 1982, Σημειώματα ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων ὡς πηγὴ διὰ τὴν ἔρευναν τοῦ οἰκονομικοῦ καὶ κοινωνικοῦ βίου τοῦ Βυζαντίου ἀπὸ τοῦ 9ου αἰῶνος μέχρι τοῦ ἔτους 1204, Athens: 185 G. Fraccaroli 1897, Catalogo dei manoscriti greci della Biblioteca Universitaria di Messina, Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica (SIFC), 5, 329-336: 335 E. Mioni, 1965, Catalogo di manoscritti greci esistenti nelle biblioteche italiane (vol. 1), Rome: 143 L. Perria, A. Iacobini 1994, Il vangelo di Dionisio, Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici (RSBN), 31, 81-163: 97 L. Perria, A. Iacobini, 1998, Il vangelo di Dionisio, Rome: 36 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 341-342, 680 (image: plate CXI) display 3 more references (6 in total) hide 3 references (6 in total) Secondary K. Maxwell 2021, Dating Middle Byzantine Gospel Books: The Gospels of Dionysios and Paris. gr. 63, in R. Ceulemans, B. Crostini Lappin (eds.), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium. Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, Uppsala, 301-324: 303 (image: plate 2), 304
Number of verses	3
Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung'. Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Dimitrios Skrekas The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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