Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18104
(formerly occ/1412)

	στίχ(οι) εἰς τ(ὸν) ἅγιον ἰωάννην:

	βροντῆς γόνον σε χριστὸς εἰκότος ἔφη: \|
	ως την ἄναρχον π(ατ)ρ(ὸ)ς ἐξ αναιτίου: \|
	γέννησην αὐτοῦ σοῖς θεοφθογγοις λόγοις, \|
	μέγιστα βροντίσαντα τῆ κτίσει πάση: \|
	εὐαγγελιστὰ παμμάκαρ κ(αὶ) παρθένε: \|
	φωστιρ ἰωάννη τε τῶν ἀποστόλων: \|
	καὶ πλείων αὐτῶν κ(υρί)ω πεφιλμένε· \|
	ἀλλ’ ὡς πρὸς αὐτὸν νῦν ἔχων παρρησια(ν): \|
	ἄνωθεν αὐτοῦ τὴν λύσιν τῶν πταισμάτ(ων) \|
	ἐμοι δοθηναι τῶ πόθω κεκτημένω: \|
	τὴν παντὸς ὄλβου τήνδε τιμιωτέραν: \|
	τῶν σῶν φαεινῶν δογμάτων θείαν \| βί\|β\|λ\|ο\|ν

Type(s)	[1885] Βροντῆς γόνον σε Χριστὸς εἰκότως ἔφη (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	967
Manuscript	SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 213 [967]
Place in Manuscript	f. 1v
Palaeographical information	Written in Constantinopolitan Auszeichnungsmajuskel by a different hand. 2 αναιτίου eadem manus ex ανετίου supra lineam correxit.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Comment	Another image in Weitzmann 1990, fig. 80.
Image source(s)	https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00271078857-ms/?sp=5
Bibliography	Primary 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: 114 K. Bentein, F. Bernard 2011, A Cycle of Book Epigrams in Honour of the Four Evangelists., Scriptorium, 65(2), 237-249: 245 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 321-322
Number of verses	12
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Floris Bernard Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis 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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