Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18241
(formerly occ/1566)

	∙:∙ ὑψιμέ\|δων μάκαρ \| υἱέος ἀφθί\|του γεννή\|τωρ·
	κ(αὶ) πνεῦ\| (...) \| εἷς γε θ(εὸ)ς τὰ \| τρία
	ὃς τῆς \| ἡμετέρης \| ταμίης φύ\|τλης ἐπέορ\|γας
	καὶ σοφίης πάροχος εὐρύθμου τε λόγου·
	γρηγορίου μεγά\|λοιο λιτῆισι τεοῦ ἱερῆος·
	οὗ χάρις ἐκ χειλῶν προύρχεται· οἷα \| μέλι
	καί τε νοήματος ἐν κραδίηι βάθος ἄπλετον ἴσχει
	πᾶ\|σι δʹ ἐνι χθονίοις οὔνομα σεῖο τρανοῖ·
	τλήμονα νικόλα\|ον μονα\|χὸν δειλή\|μοσιν ἐν \| παθέεσσι \|
	λυγρῶς τει\|ρόμενον \| ἐνδυκέ\|ως σῶζε \|
	σὴν ἐπαρεί\|γων οἷα χέ\|ρα πανσθε\|(...)\|ρήν τε
	καὶ \| γὰρ ἔτευξεν \| πόθω εὔφρο\|να τήνδε βύ\|βλον ∙:∙

Type(s)	[2115] Ὑψιμέδων μάκαρ· υἱέος ἀφθίτου γέννητορ (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	941
Manuscript	PATMOS - Mone tou Hagiou Ioannou tou Theologou 33 [941]
Place in Manuscript	f. 1v
Person(s)	Scribe Nikolaos (10th c.) - VGH: 361.C - PMBZ: 28107: "Personenkennziffer: 25953" (monachos)
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink, in konstantinopolitanische Auszeichnungsmajuskel.
Contextual information	The epigram is written inside a richly illuminated, colorful cross, decorated with palmettes and rosettes in the corners.
Metre(s)	Elegiacs
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Gregorios of Nazianzos < Cappadocia (329 - 25/01/390) - PBW: Gregorios/128/
Comment	According to Somers (1999: 534), the epigram is on f. 2r.
Image source(s)	Rhoby (2018: 649)
Bibliography	Primary I. Hutter 2009, Patmos 33 im Kontext, Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici (RSBN), 46, 73-126: 97 A. Kominis 1966, Σακκελίωνος παραλειπόμενα, Symmeikta, 1, 35-75: 22 A. Kominis, 1988, Πατμιακὴ βιβλιοθήκη ἤτοι νέος κατάλογος τῶν χειρογράφων κωδίκων τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Ἁγίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ Θεολόγου, Athens: 82 M. Lauxtermann, 2019, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 2), Vienna: 270, 287 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 263-265 I. Sakkelion, 1890, Πατμιακὴ Βιβλιοθήκη, Athens: 18 display 3 more references (6 in total) hide 3 references (6 in total) Secondary S. Lucà 2009, Sulla sottoscrizione in versi del Vat. gr. 2000 (ff. 1-154), in C. Braidotti, E. Dettori, E. Lanzillotta (eds.), Οὐ πᾶν ἐφήμερον. Scritti in memoria di Roberto Pretagostini, Rome, 275-308: 297 J. Mossay, 1993, Repertorium Nazianzenum. Orationes. Textus Graecus. Codices Belgii, Bulgariae, Constantinopolis, Germaniae, Graeciae (pars prior), Heluetiae, Hiberniae, Hollandiae, Poloniae, Russiarum, Scandinauiae, Ucrainae et codex uagus (vol. 3), Paderborn: 151 V. Somers 1999, Quelques poèmes en l'honneur de S. Grégoire de Nazianze: édition critique, traduction et commentaire, Byzantion, 69, 528-564: 534
Number of verses	12
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) 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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