Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17173
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	ἴαμβος εἰς τὸν ἅγιον μάρκον τὸν εὐαγγελιστ(ήν):–

	Πέτρου μαθητὴς τῆς πέτρας χ(ριστο)ῦ πέλων:
	διδάσκαλος πέφηνας ἄμφω κ(αὶ) μέγας:
	εὐαγγελιστὴς δεύτερος τοῦ κ(υρίο)υ:
	τῆς μυριόχλου πληθύος τῶν θαυμάτων:
	ὅλην μὲν ὡς φῶς λαμπρύνων οἰκουμένην:
	πᾶσαν δὲ τὴν αἴγυπτον ἐκ πλάνης λύσας:
	διὸ προθύμως μαρτυρήσας κ(αὶ) τέλος:
	εὔχριστον εὑρὼν μάρκε καὶ παρρησίαν:
	ἔχων κατάμφω πρὸς τὸν ὄντως δεσπότην:
	τὸν τὴν σοφήν σου δέλτον ἐν πιστῶ πόθω:
	τεύξαντα τήνδε ταῖς λιταῖς σου φωτίσας:
	θ(εο)ῦ με δεξαις δέξιον παραστάτην:–

Type(s)	[2895] Πέτρου μαθητὴς τῆς πέτρας Χριστοῦ πέλων (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy 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. 66r
Person(s)	Scribe Zacharias Praitoriotes (11th c.) (presbyteros)
Palaeographical information	Written in Auszeichnungsmajuskel.
Contextual information	Written before Mark's Evangelium.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Mark (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Peter (apostle, saint) (1st c.)
Comment	On f. 66v there is a miniature of the evangelist Mark.
Image source(s)	https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00271078419-ms/?sp=69
Bibliography	Primary K. Bentein, F. Bernard 2011, A Cycle of Book Epigrams in Honour of the Four Evangelists., Scriptorium, 65(2), 237-249: 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: 384 Secondary 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 Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, 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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