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Occurrence 17404
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	Βροντῆς γόνε βρόντησον \| ὑψίθεν μέγα· \|
	Καὶ σήμανον πῶς· ἡ προ\|άρχιος φύσις \|
	Θ(εὸ)ς βροτός τε· καὶ θ(εὸ)ς πά\|λιν μένει· \|
	Δίδου δὲ λύσιν· τῶν ὀ\|φλημάτων βίου: \|
	Ἰωάννου κοσμοῦντι· τὸν \| χρόνου κύκλον: \|

Type(s)	[1887] Βροντῆς γόνε, βρόντησον ὑψόθεν μέγα (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1151-1200
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Barb. gr. 520 [1151-1200]
Place in Manuscript	f. 126v
Palaeographical information	The title and the initials are written in majuscule letters highlighted in red.
Contextual information	The epigram accompanies a miniature of the evangelist John and is followed by another epigram, inc. 'Βροντὴ πέφυκεν ἡ θεηγόρος λύρα'. A braided headband - coloured in red, blue and yellow - separates the two poems.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Image-related epigram
Subject(s)	John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s)	http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/modules/papyri/?zoom=42&left=-20&top=-149&site=INTF&image=30163/0/2560/10/2003
Bibliography	Primary E. Follieri 1956, Epigrammi sugli Evangelisti dai codici Barberiniani greci 352 e 520, Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata (BBGG), 10, 61-156: 154 I. Hutter, 2022, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Corpus der Italogriechischen dekorierten Handschriften der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (vol. 6.2), Stuttgart: 934 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 468-469 Secondary D. Pieralisi, 1836, Inventarium codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Barberinae (vol. 2), Vatican City: 182
Number of verses	5
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Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung'. Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri, Eleonora Lauro Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Maria Tomadaki, Eleonora Lauro The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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