Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17566
(formerly occ/794)

∙:∙ χ(ριστ)ῶ ἄνακτι δόξα καὶ κράτος πρέπει⋮∙

Type(s)	[2121] Χριστῷ ἄνακτι δόξα καὶ κράτος πρέπει. (1 verse)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1066
Manuscript	LONDON - British Library - Add. 19352 [1066]
Place in Manuscript	f. 208r
Person(s)	Patron Michael Mermentoulos (11th c.) - RGK: I.131 - VGH: 138.E - PBW: Michael/115/ (abbas of the Monastery of Stoudios < Konstantinoupolis < Turkey, kathegoumenos of the Monastery of Stoudios < Konstantinoupolis < Turkey, sygkellos of the Monastery of Stoudios < Konstantinoupolis < Turkey) Scribe Theodoros of Kaisareia (11th c.) - RGK: I.131 - VGH: 138.E
Palaeographical information	Written in gold ink, in epigraphische Auszeichnungsmajuskel.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of the manuscript.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33)
Comment	Theodorus of Caesaerea uses this scribal epigram in three of the manuscripts he copied: Vat. Bibl. Ap. Barb. 372, Par. Bibl. Nat. 74 and Lond. Brit. Mus. Add. 19.352 (Hutter (1997: 187)).
Image source(s)	http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_19352_f208r
Bibliography	Primary F. Bernard, 2014, Writing and Reading Byzantine Secular Poetry 1025-1081, Oxford: 318 I. Hutter 1997, Theodoros βιβλιογράφος und die Buchmalerei in Studiu, Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata (BBGG), 51, 177-208: 187 A. Kominis 1951, Συναγωγὴ ἐπιγραμμάτων εἰς τοὺς τέσσαρας Εὐαγγελιστάς, Ἐπετηρὶς Ἑταιρείας Βυζαντινῶν Σπουδῶν (EEBS), 21, 254-279: 40 H. Omont 1884, Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum, Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 45, 314-350: 349 R. Stichel 1976, Zu Fragen der Publikation byzantinischer illustrierter Psalterhandschriften, Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, 12, 78-85: 83
Number of verses	1
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Ilse De Vos The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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