Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17545
(formerly occ/770)

	+τοὺς μαργάρους σου τῶν λόγων χρυσοῖς λόγοις:
	κεραννύων ἄριστα καὶ περιπλέκων:
	χριστοῦ μαθητά σὸς μαθητὴς εἰκότως:
	ἔδειξε πολλῶ μᾶλλον εὐπρεπεστέρους:
	ἄρρητον ὥραν ἡδονὴν ψυχῶν ξένην:
	νύμφης τε χριστοῦ κάλλος οὐκ ἔχον κόρον:
	ὧν τὴν ἀπαστράπτουσαν ὁ πλουτὼν χάριν:
	λήθην τε νικᾶν καὶ χρόνου φθορὰν θέλω(ν):
	εἰς τοῦτο καινὸν ἐγχαράττει βιβλίον:
	τοῖς εὐσεβοῦσι πρᾶγμα μυρίου πόθου:

Type(s)	[2105] Τοὺς μαργάρους σου τῶν λόγων χρυσοῖς λόγοις (10 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	11th c.
Manuscript	SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 366 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 2v
Palaeographical information	Written in majuscule.
Contextual information	The epigram precedes a commentary of John Chrysostom on Matthew's gospel.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	John Chrysostom (saint) Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s)	https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00279380125-ms/?sp=9
Bibliography	Primary R. Stefec 2011, Anmerkungen zu weiteren Epigrammen in epigraphischer Auszeichnungsmajuskel, Byzantion, 81, 326-361: 329 Secondary 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: 206
Number of verses	10
Related occurrence(s)	[16949] τοὺς μαργάρους σου τῶν λόγων χρυσοῖς λόγοις [11th c.] ATHENS - Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados 2553 [11th c.] (f. 1v) (10 verses) (9/10) [17544] τοὺς μαργάρους σου τῶν λόγων χρυσοῖς λόγοις [11th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 66 [11th c.] (f. Iv) (10 verses) (10/10) [21424] Τοὺς μαργάρους σου τῶν λόγων χρυσοῖς λόγοις [11th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 67 [11th c.] (f. 1v) (10 verses) (9/10) [17546] τοὺς μαργάρους σου τῶν λόγων χρυσοῖς λόγοις [11th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - suppl. gr. 4 [11th c.] (f. 5r) (10 verses) (10/10)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, 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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