Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17172
(formerly occ/298)

	+ ἴαμβος εἰς τ(ὸν) ἅγιον ματθ(αῖον) τὸν εὐαγγελιστήν·

	Πρῶτον τελώνης τῶν ἰουδαίων πέλων:
	τὸ \| τὸ δεύτερον φέριστε τῆς τοῦ κυρίου:
	εὐαγγε\|λιστὴς σαρκικῆς παρουσίας:
	γραφεύς τε \| πιστὸς τῶν ἀληθῶν θαυμάτων:
	αὐτοῦ \| πέφηνας καὶ τρίβους σ(ωτη)ρίας:
	πολλοὺς ὁ\|δηγῶν πρὸς θ(εὸ)ν σεσωσμένους:
	διὸ πρὸ(ς) \| αὐτὸν ὡς ἔχων παρρησίαν:
	ματθαῖε \| κλεινὲ τῶν ἀποστόλων γέρας:
	τὸν τήν\|δε σου τεύξαντα τὴν βίβλον πόθω: \|
	πίστει τὲ θερμὴ καὶ πολλὴ προαιρέσει· \|
	ταῖς σαῖς ἀώζοις κ(αὶ) ποδηγεῖς εὐκτίαις: \|
	καὶ χρηστὴν ἕξειν τοῦ βίου νέμοις τέλο(ς):–

Type(s)	[2063] Πρῶτον τελώνης τῶν Ἰουδαίων πέλων (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	May 1067
Manuscript	SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 172 [May 1067]
Place in Manuscript	f. 2v
Person(s)	Scribe Zacharias Praitoriotes (11th c.) (presbyteros)
Palaeographical information	Bentein-Bernard (2011: 243): '12 ἕξην a.c.'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s)	https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00271078419-ms/?sp=5
Bibliography	Primary K. Bentein, F. Bernard 2011, A Cycle of Book Epigrams in Honour of the Four Evangelists., Scriptorium, 65(2), 237-249: 242-243 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: 383 Secondary A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 374 K. Treu, 1966, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR, Berlin: 123 K. Weitzmann, G. Galavaris, 1990, The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts. From the Ninth to the Twelfth Century (vol. 1), Princeton: 80
Number of verses	12
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Acknowledgements	Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis, Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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