Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18921
(formerly occ/2327)

	Ἐγὼ διονύσιε τολμῶ κ(αὶ) λέγ(ειν),
	ὡς οὐκ ἐπλάσθ(ης) ἐν γυναικὸ(ς) κοιλία· \|
	ἀλλ᾿ἀγγέλ(οις) μάλιστα συντεταγμ(έ)νο(ς)·
	ἄνωθ(εν) ἦλθες, ἐκ πόλου φύσ(ις) ξένη· \|
	βροτ(οῖς) ἀπαγγέλλουσα πάντ(α) πρὸ(ς) μέρο(ς)·
	τὰ τ(ῶν) ἀΰλ(ων) ταγμάτ(ων) ὅπως ἔχει· \|
	οὕτ(ω) γινώσκ(εις) τ(ὰς) ἀΰλ(ους) οὐσίας·
	οὕτω θεωρ(εῖς) ἐνθέους θεωρί(ας). \|
	οὕτω θεωρ(εῖς) τ(ὰς) φύσεις τ(ῶν) ἀγγέλων·
	οὕτω τὸ μεῖζον ἄγγελο(ς) σὺ τ(ὴν) φύσ(ιν) :-

Type(s)	[3119] Ἐγώ, Διονύσιε, τολμῶ καὶ λέγειν (10 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a microfilm of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th c.
Manuscript	NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. II A 10 [13th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 4r
Palaeographical information	The epigram is written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram precedes the works of Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Comment	Mioni (1992: 47) gives only the incipit but refers to PG 3,116.
Bibliography	Primary S. Cyrillus, 1826, Codices graeci mss Regiae Bibliothecae Borbonicae (vol. 1), Napels: 121 S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 181-182, 181-182 E. Mioni, 1992, Catalogus codicum Graecorum Bibliothecae Nationalis Neapolitanae (vol. 1.1), Rome: 47 G. Pierleoni, 1962, Catalogus codicum Graecorum Bibliothecae Nationalis Neapolitanae (vol. 1), Roma: 61 Secondary V. Lundström 1900, Ramenta byzantina, Eranos, 4, 134-147: 137
Number of verses	10
Related occurrence(s)	[19150] ἐγὼ διονύσιε τολμῶ καὶ λέγειν [29/01/1348] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 5, Cod. 26 [29/01/1348] (f. 1r) (10 verses) (10/10) [24720] ἐγὼ διονύσιε τολμῶ καὶ λέγειν [14th-15th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 5, Cod. 26 [29/01/1348] ((gen.) Flyleaf) (6 verses) (6/10) [18943] Ἐγώ, Διονύσιε, τολμῶ καὶ λέγειν [14th c.] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. II B 5 [1326-1375] (f. 2v) (10 verses) (10/10) [22917] Ἐγὼ διονύσιε τολμῶ καὶ λέγειν [14th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - suppl. gr. 1 [14th c.] (f. 5r) (10 verses) (10/10)
Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Patristik: Dionysius-Areopagita)’. Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Sien De Groot Contributor(s) Sien De Groot, Rachele Ricceri, Raf Praet, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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