Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17401
(formerly occ/600)

	+ ἴαμβος εἰς τὸν ἅγιον ἰωάννην τ(ὸν) εὐαγγε(λισ)τ(ήν):

	Βροντῆς γόνον σε χ(ριστὸ)ς εἰκότως ἔφη:
	ὡς τὴν ἄναρχον π(ατρὸ)ς ἐξ ἀνετίου:
	γέννησιν αὐτοῦ σοῖς θεοφθόγγοις λόγοις:
	μέγιστα βροντήσαντα τῆ κτίσει πᾶσι:
	εὐαγγελιστὰ παμμάκαρ καὶ παρθ(έ)νε:
	φωστὴρ ἰωαννη τε τῶν ἀποστόλων:
	καὶ πλεῖον αὐτῶν κ(υρί)ω πεφιλμένε:
	ἀλλ' ὡς πρὸς αὐτὸν νῦν ἔχων παρρησίαν:
	ἄνωθεν αἰτοῦ τὴν λύσιν τῶν πταισμάτ(ων):
	ἐμοὶ δοθῆναι τῶι πόθω κεκτημένω:
	τὴν παντὸς ὄλβου τήνδε τιμιωτέραν:
	τῶν σῶν φαινῶν δογμάτων θείαν βίβλον:-

Type(s)	[1885] Βροντῆς γόνον σε Χριστὸς εἰκότως ἔφη (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1067
Manuscript	SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 172 [1067]
Place in Manuscript	f. 168r
Person(s)	Scribe Zacharias (11th c.) (presbyteros)
Palaeographical information	Written in Auszeichnungsmajuskel.
Contextual information	The epigram precedes John's Evangelium.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s)	https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00271078419-ms/?sp=172
Bibliography	Primary V. Beneševič, 1911, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum qui in monasterio Sanctae Catharinae in monte asservantur. Codices manuscripti notabiliores bibliothecae monasterii Sinaitici ejusque metochii Cahirensis, ab archimandrita Porphyrio (Uspenskio) descripti (vol. 1), Saint-Petersburg: 114 K. Bentein, F. Bernard 2011, A Cycle of Book Epigrams in Honour of the Four Evangelists., Scriptorium, 65(2), 237-249: 245 W. Hörandner 2000, Randbemerkungen zum Thema Epigramme und Kunstwerke, in C. Scholz, G. Makris (eds.), Polypleuros Nous. Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag, München, 69-82: 79 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 321-322 K. Treu, 1966, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR, Berlin: 123 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: nr. 49, 384 display 3 more references (6 in total) hide 3 references (6 in total)
Number of verses	12
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Maria Tomadaki, Ilse De Vos, Nina Sietis The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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