Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18828
(formerly occ/2223)

	+ γρηγόριος βροντῆς νοερᾶς γόνος ἔστιν \| ἀληθὴς
	ὃς χθονίην σοφίην χ(ριστο)ῦ ὑ\|πὸτάξας
	μυστήρια ἤχησε νοερῶς πιστὰ \| θεοῖο
	εἰς δέκα γὰρ λυκάβαντας ὅλην \| βασιληίδα ποίμνην·
	αἱρετικῶν πο\|λέμοισι τινασσομένην ἐσάωσεν·
	κ(αὶ) \| σὺ θεωρήτων ἐπέων βασίλειε γεωργέ \|
	καίσαρος ἀντέλλων μεγάλης ὑπὲρ ἄστε\|ος αἴγλης.
	ἐσθλὸν ἔχεις ἐγγὺς. γραφί\|δεσσιν ὁμότροφον ἑταῖρον
	γρηγόριον πι\|νυτὸν θεοτέρπεος ἔμφρονα βίβλου,
	ἐγγύθι καὶ τριάδος πανακηράτου ἔστε \| χορευ\|ται.

Type(s)	[3061] Γρηγόριος βροντῆς νοερᾶς γόνος ἐστὶν ἀληθής (10 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	901-950
Manuscript	MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 57 (Vlad. 139) [901-950]
Place in Manuscript	f. 167r
Palaeographical information	The epigram is written in Auszeichnungssmajuskel. The lines are highlighted alternatively in green and yellow.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Basil the Great (330-379) (episkopos of Kaisareia < Cappadocia) Gregorios of Nazianzos < Cappadocia (329 - 25/01/390) - PBW: Gregorios/128/
Image source(s)	Digital reproduction
Bibliography	Primary Archimandrite Vladimir, 1894, Sistematičeskoe opisanie rukopisej Moskovskoj Sinodal’noj (Patriarsej) Biblioteki. Rukopisi grečeskija (vol. 1), Moscow: 145 Archimandrite Vladimir, X. Grichine, J. Johannet, 1995, Description systématique des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Synodale Patriarchale de Moscou. Grec 106 à grec 180 (vol. 2), Unknown: 155 K. Demoen, V. Somers 2016, Grégoire de Nazianze, le Fils du tonnerre. Encore quelques adscripta métriques dans les manuscrits grégoriens, in V. Somers, P. Yannopoulos (eds.), Philokappadox. In memoriam Justin Mossay, Leuven, 199-221: 201 E. Dobrynina, 2013, Corpus of Greek Illuminated Manuscripts in Russian Collections. Manuscripts of the 9th – 10th cc. at the State Historical Museum (vol. 1.1), Moscow: 100 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 337-338 J. Sajdak, 1914, Historia critica scholiastarum et commentatorum Gregorii Nazianzeni, Krakau: 270 display 3 more references (6 in total) hide 3 references (6 in total)
Number of verses	10
Related occurrence(s)	[20672] γρηγόριος \| βροντῆς νοερᾶς \| γόνος ἐστὶν ἀληθὴς [9th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana E 49-50 inf. [9th c.] (f. IIv) (10 verses) (3/10)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Sarah-Helena Van den Brande The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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