Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19150
(formerly occ/2612)

	+ ἐγὼ διονύσιε τολμῶ καὶ λέγειν,
	ὡς οὑκ ἐπλάσθης ἐν γυναικὸς κοιλία,
	ἄλλ᾽ ἀγγέλοις μάλιστα συντεταγμένος
	ἄνωθεν ἦλθες ἐκ πόλου φύσις ξένη
	βροτοῖς ἀπαγγέλλουσα πάντα πρὸς μέρος
	τὰ τῶν ἀΰλων ταγμάτων ὅπως ἔχοι·
	οὕτω γινώσκεις τὰς ἀΰλους οὐσίας·
	οὕτω θεωρεῖς ἐνθέως θεωρίας
	οὕτω φανεροῖς τὰς φύσεις τῶν ἀγγέλων·
	οὕτω τὸ μεῖζον ἄγγελος σὺ τὴν φύσιν.

Type(s)	[3119] Ἐγώ, Διονύσιε, τολμῶ καὶ λέγειν (10 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	29/01/1348
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 5, Cod. 26 [29/01/1348]
Place in Manuscript	f. 1r
Person(s)	Scribe Nikolaos Meles - VGH: 352.B - PLP: VII.17765
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink, partly vanished.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Comment	= Christophoros Mitylenaios K 86. The first 6 verses of the epigram are repeated on the preceding flyleaf by a different hand, with some variants.
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000608064&keyworks=plut.05.26#page/21/mode/1up
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 50 V. Lundström 1900, Ramenta byzantina, Eranos, 4, 134-147: 137 Secondary M. De Groote, 2012, Christophori Mitylenaii Versuum Variorum Collectio Cryptensis, Turnhout: XXXIII
Number of verses	10
Related occurrence(s)	[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) [18921] Ἐγὼ διονύσιε τολμῶ κ(αὶ) λέγ(ειν) [13th c.] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. II A 10 [13th c.] (f. 4r) (10 verses) (10/10) [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	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Sien De Groot, Rachele Ricceri, Lotte van Olmen The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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