Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17160
(formerly occ/285)

	πάλαι σε δῶρον ἐκ θ(εο)ῦ θεηγόρε·
	πλουτοῦντ(ες) ἐν γῆ σῶν μετείχομ(εν) λόγω(ν): \|
	καὶ νῦν σε πλουτήσειεν αὖθις προστάτ(ην):
	ἐκλιπαροῦμ(εν) πάντ(ες) οἱ συνηγμένοι: \|
	ὁ τούσ(δε) τοὺς σοὺς ἐν βίβλω χρυσοὺς λόγους:
	ἄριστ(ος) νικόλα(ος) ἐνθεὶς ἐνθέως

Type(s)	[5661] Πάλαι σε δῶρον ἐκ Θεοῦ, θεηγόρε (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1085-1100
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 533 [1085-1100]
Place in Manuscript	f. 3v
Person(s)	Patron Nikolaos III Grammatikos (11th c.) Scribe Michael Panerges (11th c.) - RGK: I.289, III.472 - PBW: Michael/204/ (alitros, kathegoumenos of the Monastery of Christ Panoiktirmon < Konstantinoupolis < Turkey, monachos)
Palaeographical information	The text is written in gold uncial letters.
Contextual information	The epigram is written below an image with a teaching scene of the enthroned Saint Gregory, who holds the Gospel and gives his blessing, surrounded by several priests.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Image-related epigram Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	Gregorios of Nazianzos < Cappadocia (329 - 25/01/390) - PBW: Gregorios/128/ Nikolaos III Grammatikos (11th c.)
Comment	Anna Marava-Chatzinikolaou identifies "the Nicholas" as Patriarch Nicholas Grammatikos (1084–1111). This is followed by Pérez Martín (2016: 579), who suggests the poem refers to Nicholas’s role as a teacher at the patriarchal School of Saint Peter and the surrounding figures as his students.
Bibliography	Primary G. Galavaris, 1969, The Illustrations of the Liturgical Homilies of Gregory Nazianzenus, Princeton: XLII (image: plate 234), 238 H. Omont, 1929, Miniatures des plus anciens manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Nationale du VIe au XIVe Siècle, Paris: 51 I. Pérez Martín 2016, La sécularisation du monachisme byzantin à l’époque macédonienne : l’évidence manuscrite, in O. Delouis, S. Métivier, P. Pagès (eds.), Le saint, le moine et le paysan. Mélanges d'histoire byzantine offerts à Michel Kaplan, Paris, 563-588: 579 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 140-141, 607 (image: plate XXVII) Secondary H. Bordier, 1883, Description des peintures et autres ornements contenus dans les manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris: 141
Number of verses	6
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Juan Bautista Juan López The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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