Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17156
(formerly occ/282)

	+ ψυχη νερωνος η τυραννικωτατη·
	κειται νεκρα δῦσφημος· \| ητιμωμένη·
	δεσμοις, αφυκτοις, εις, ἀεὶ πεδουμενη· \|
	·αιωνια μαστιγι συντηρουμενη·
	παυλος δε και ζη καὶ λα\|λεῖ καθημέραν.
	το τοῦ Θ(εο)ῦ προσωπον εμφανως βλεπων.

Type(s)	[3172] Ψυχὴ Νέρωνος ἡ τυραννικωτάτη (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	10th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 224 [10th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 6v
Palaeographical information	The text is written in gold in alexandrinische Auszeichnungsmajuskel. The text accompanies an illuminated miniature of St Paul who sits on a throne and writes his Epistle(s). The image is surrounded by decoration, where the epigram is written in the following order: up, right (clockwise) and then left, down (anti-clockwise). On the next folio, there is an image of St John Chrysostom sitting on a throne and Theodoretos and Oecumenios attending him while being in the two sides (left and right), where there are two epigrams too. See also Harley 7551 which is a Collotype circa 1880 of Paris gr. 224, cf Nares (1808c: 535): "Pictura secunda tres habet figuras; unam stantis, duas sedentium. Supra caput stantis scribitur, Ἰωάννης, ἡ δόξα τῆς ἐκκλησίας, λόγους ἑρευνῶν τους ἀπορρήτους παύλου. Supra sedentem, in dextra οἰκουμένιος, supra alium Θεοδώριτος. Circa oras picturarum etiam inscriptiones pinguntur, de Nerone, Paulo, &c. Scilicet, circa priorem: Ψυχη Νερωνος η τυραννικωτατη".
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (15/12/37 - 09/06/68) Paul (apostle, saint)
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10515748z/f20.image
Bibliography	Primary K. Demoen, R. Ricceri, M. Tomadaki 2021, Paul in Byzantine Book Epigrams, in M. Cacouros, J. Sautel (eds.), Des cahiers à l'histoire de la culture à Byzance. Hommage à Paul Canart, codicologue (1927-2017), Leuven / Paris / Bristol, 117-134: 126 (n. 38) G. Karo, H. Lietzmann, 1902, Catenarum Graecarum Catalogus, Göttingen: 607 H. Omont, 1929, Miniatures des plus anciens manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Nationale du VIe au XIVe Siècle, Paris: 49 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 131-132 K. Staab, 1926, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome: 117-118
Number of verses	6
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri 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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