Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17408
(formerly occ/606)

※ Διονυσίω θείω ἱεράρχη. Γρηγόριος ταῦτα :·
 
⁘ μορφὰς ἀκαλλεῖς τῶν κάτω παιδευμάτ(ων):
εὐαγγελικαῖς ὡραΐσας ταῖς χρόαις·
τὸ φῶς ὑπὲρ νοῦν ἀποστίλβεις τῶν λόγων:
πᾶν εἴ τι τερπνὸν μυστικῆς ἐποψίας:
αἄρρητον ἀθέατον εἰσδῢς τὸν γνόφον·
ἄσαρκος ὥσπερ σαρκικοῖς ἡμῖν γράφων:
βαθμοὺς ὑποθεὶς κ(αὶ) σοφὰς ἀναβάσεις:
ὡς ἂν ὁ καπνὸς ψυχικῶν μολυσμάτων:
εὐθὺς σκεδασθῆ ταῖς θεουργαῖς ἀκτισι·
καὶ κατα μικρὸν ὑπανεὶς τὸ σαρκίον:
πρὸς ἀγγέλων ἔλλαμψιν αὐτίκα φέρεις·
δι᾿ὧν κατόπτροις ἐντυχόντες ὡς νόας:
ἐκ τῆσδε τήνδε συνορῶντες τὴν χάριν·
τριαδικὴν σύμπτυξιν ἐκ τῶν ἀστάτων:
ἡἡμῖν συνϊστᾶς ταῖς καλαῖς ἀτρεψίαις:
πρὸς τῶν θεϊκῶν ἐμπύρων αὐγασμ(ά)τ(ων):
τραν(ῶς) ψυχικαῖς ἀποθήκαις εἰσάγων:
πόρρω διαθεὶς τῆς ἀπάτης τὸν ζόφον:
καλά γε ταῦτα κ(αὶ) καλὰ λάβοις γέρα:
ἀνθ᾿ὧν ὁδηγεῖς π(άτ)ερ εὐσεβοφρόνως :-
Type(s) [5994] Μορφὰς ἀκαλλεῖς τῶν κάτω παιδευμάτων (20 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 12th-15th c.
Manuscript ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 157 [10th-11th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. Iv
Palaeographical information Written in dark black ink. The title and initials are written in red ink.
The epigram was added by a later hand.
Contextual information The epigram precedes the works of Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)
Subject(s) Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Bibliography

Primary

Secondary

S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 144-145 (image: plate 15), 166-168
Number of verses 20
Related occurrence(s) [23449] Μορφὰς ἀκαλλεῖς τῶν κάτω παιδευμάτων [14th c.]
EL ESCORIAL - Real Biblioteca Σ.ΙΙΙ.10 [14th c.] (f. 219r)
(20 verses) (20/20)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Delphine Nachtergaele
Transcriber(s)
Sien De Groot
Contributor(s)
Rachele Ricceri, Sien De Groot, Nina Vanhoutte, Raf Praet, Floris Bernard, Paulien Lemay, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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