Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18444
(formerly occ/1787)

	∙:∙ τὴν ἀρχικήν τε κ(αὶ) βασιλικωτάτην:
	∙:∙ ἰσχὺν παριστᾶ τοῦ θ(εο)ῦ καὶ δεσπότου:

Type(s)	[2768] Τὴν ἀρχικήν τε καὶ βασιλικωτάτην (2 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	12th c.
Manuscript	ISTANBUL - Oikoumenikon Patriarcheion Patriarchikon Skeuofulakion 3 [12th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 18r
Palaeographical information	Written in alexandrinische Auszeichnungsmajuskel.
Contextual information	The epigram accompanies a miniature of a lion, carrying a book. The lion is usually a symbol associated with Mark the Evangelist. However, in this manuscript the epigram precedes the Gospel of Matthew.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram
Subject(s)	Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s)	Soteriou1937, plate 48
Bibliography	Primary B. Koutloumousianos, 1846, Ὑπόμνημα ἱστορικόν περὶ τῆς κατά τὴν Χάλκην Μονῆς τῆς Θεοτόκου, Constantinople: 97 R. Nelson, 1980, The Iconography of Preface and Miniature in the Byzantine Gospel Book, New York: 26 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 255-256 G. Soteriou, 1937, Κειμήλια τοῦ Οἰκουμενικοῦ Πατριαρχείου. Πατριαρχικὸς ναὸς καὶ σκευοφυλάκιον, Athens: 75
Number of verses	2
Related occurrence(s)	[23641] τὴν ἀρχικήν τε κ(αὶ) βασιλικωτάτην [14th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 937 (olim 735) [14th c.] (f. 321r) (2 verses) (2/2) [23679] τὴν ἀρχ(ι)κήν τε καὶ βασιλικωτάτην [12th-13th c.] LONDON - British Library - Egerton 2783 [12th-13th c.] (f. 264r) (2 verses) (2/2)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri 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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