Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17546
(formerly occ/771)

	⁘ τοὺς μαργάρους σου τῶν λόγων χρυσοῖς λόγοις:
	κεραννύων ἄριστα καὶ περιπλέκων:
	χριστοῦ μαθητὰς σὸς μαθητὴς εἰκότως:
	ἔδειξε πολλῶ μᾶλλον εὐπρεπεστέρους:
	ἄρρητον ὥραν ἡδονὴν ψυχῶν ξένην:
	νύμφης τὲ χριστοῦ κάλλος οὐκ έχον κόρον:
	ὧν τὴν ἀπαστράπτουσαν ὁ πλουτὼν χάριν:
	λήθην τὲ νικᾶν καὶ χρόνου φθορὰν θέλων:
	εἰς τοῦτο καινὸν εγχαραττει 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	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - suppl. gr. 4 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 5r
Palaeographical information	Written in gold ink, in epigraphische Auszeichnungsmajuskel.
Contextual information	The epigram, written inside a decorative frame, precedes John Chrysostom's homilies on the Gospel of Matthew. It is followed by another epigram.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	John Chrysostom (saint) Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s)	http://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_8015439&order=17&view=SINGLE
Bibliography	Primary H. Hunger, C. Hannick, 1994, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Supplementum Graecum (vol. 4), Vienna: 9 A. Kollar, 1790, Petri Lambecii Hamburgensis Commentariorum de Augustissima Bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi. Supplementorum liber primus posthumus (vol. 9), Vienna: 176 P. Lambacher, 1750, Bibliotheca antiqua Vindobonensis civica (vol. 1), Vienna: 95 Secondary F. Bernard, 2014, Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry 1025-1081, Oxford: 80 H. Hunger 1977, Minuskel und Auszeichnungsschriften im 10.-12 Jahrhundert, in J. Bompaire, J. Irigoin, J. Glénisson (eds.), La Paléographie grecque et byzantine (Colloque international du CNRS, Paris, 21-25 octobre 1974), Paris, 201-220: 218 (image: plate 14) R. Meesters 2020, The visual representation of the formulaic colophon verse τῷ συντελεστῇ τῶν καλῶν θεῷ χάρις, in C. Brockmann, D. Harlfinger, D. Deckers, S. Valente (eds.), Griechisch-byzantinische Handschriftenforschung. Traditionen, Entwicklungen, neue Wege (vol. 1), Berlin/Boston, 333-347: 336
Number of verses	10
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Dimitrios Skrekas, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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