Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17269
(formerly occ/440)

	ἡ τῶν προφητῶν ἀκρότης ἡσαΐας:
	τὸν νοῦν καθαρθεὶς ἄνθρακι φλογὸς ξένης:
	καὶ δὴ τὸ μέλλον ὡς ἐνεστὼς προβλέπων:
	χριστοῦ διετράνωσε τὴν παρουσίαν:
	πτῶσιν προηγόρευσε τῶν χριστοκτόνων:
	πίστιν προεῖπε τῶν πρὶν ἔξωθεν νόμου:
	καὶ παντὶ κόσμω τὴν παλίρροιαν βίου:
	πρισθεὶς φθόνω δὲ καὶ πόλον λαχὼν μένειν:
	ῥήσεις λέλοιπεν εἰς ὄνησιν ἐν βίῳ:
	ἄσπερ νικήτας ὃν στέφους κοιτὼν ἔχει:
	ἐν ὡραϊσμῶ συντέθεικεν ἐνθάδε:
	εἰς πίστεως ἔνδειγμα καὶ ψυχῆς λύτρον:

Type(s)	[1984] Ἡ τῶν προφητῶν ἀκρότης Ἡσαΐας (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	951-1000
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 5, Cod. 9 [951-1000]
Place in Manuscript	f. 3v
Person(s)	Patron Niketas (10th c.) - PMBZ: 27952: "Personenkennziffer: 25798" (koitonites)
Palaeographical information	Written in epigraphische Auszeichnungsmajuskel, in golden ink.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Isaiah Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Niketas (10th c.) - PMBZ: 27952: "Personenkennziffer: 25798" (koitonites)
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000607714&keyworks=plut.05.09#page/20/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 19 G. Cavallo, H. Belting, 1979, Die Bibel des Niketas, Wiesbaden: 27 J. Lowden, 1987, Illuminated Prophet Books, London: 18 A. Roberts 2020, A Greek Alchemical Epigram in its Middle Byzantine Context, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 83, 1-36: 34-35 R. Stefec 2009, Anmerkungen zu einigen handschriftlich überlieferten Epigrammen in epigraphischer Auszeichnungsmajuskel, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB), 59, 203-212: 205 Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2003, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 1), Vienna: 346
Number of verses	12
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Lotte van Olmen, Floris Bernard, 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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