Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19138
(formerly occ/2601)

	+ ἡ βίβλος ἥδε γαβριὴλ μονοτρόπου
	ἣν (καὶ) ἀνατίθησι τῆ σεβασμία,
	μονῆ μαγγάν(ων) μάρτ(υ)ρ(ος) γεωργ(ίου)
	εἰς ἄφεσ(ιν) μ(ὲν) τῶν πρὶν ἡμαρτημ(έ)ν(ων) \|
	τοῦ γοῦν ἀφαιρήσαντο(ς) ἐκ ταύτης κρύφα
	πυξίδα τήνδε ἐκ μονῆς τῶν μαγγάν(ων),
	ἀρὰς φρικώδεις λήψεται τῶν ἁγίων \|
	σὺν ταῖσδε τοῦ μάρτ(υ)ρ(ος) οὗ μέγα κλέος +

Type(s)	[2602] Ἡ βίβλος ἥδε Γαβριὴλ μονοτρόπου (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	EL ESCORIAL - Real Biblioteca Ω.III.8 [13th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 2r
Person(s)	Scribe Gabriel (14th c.) - RGK: III.79e - VGH: 62.G - PLP: II.3426 (monotropos, oikonomos)
Palaeographical information	Written in the lower margin. The first four verses are written on one line, in four columns; the next three (vv. 5-7) on a second line in three columns; the last verse is centered on a third line.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the beginning of the manuscript.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Gabriel (14th c.) - RGK: III.79e - VGH: 62.G - PLP: II.3426 (monotropos, oikonomos)
Image source(s)	https://rbme.patrimonionacional.es/s/rbme/item/16161#?xywh=676%2C3049%2C1128%2C492&cv=15
Bibliography	Primary G. de Andrés Martínez, 1967, Catálogo de los codices griegos de la Real Biblioteca de El Escorial. Códices 421-649 (vol. 3), Madrid: 183 E. Miller, 1848, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque de l'Escurial, Paris: 479 O. Volk 1955, Die byzantinischen Klosterbibliotheken von Konstantinopel, Thessalonike und Kleinasien, Munich: 29 Secondary S. Mercati 1970, Un testament inédit en faveur de Saint-Georges des Manganes, in S. Mercati (ed.), Collectanea Byzantina (vol. 2), Bari, 54-65: 59
Number of verses	8
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Sarah-Helena Van den Brande, Rachele Ricceri, 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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