Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19306
(formerly occ/2766)

	+ ἄλλοι μὲν ἄλλως τῆ πανολβίω φύσει:
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	συν τη τεκουση μητρι κ(αὶ) θεητοκω:
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Type(s)	[3669] Ἄλλοι μὲν ἄλλως τῇ πανολβίῳ φύσει (7 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	926-975
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Reg. gr. 1 [926-975]
Place in Manuscript	f. 2v
Person(s)	Patron Leon Sakellarios (10th c.) - PMBZ: 26573: "Personenkennziffer: 24419" - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP:
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink, in biblical majuscule.
Contextual information	The epigram surrounds a miniature of Leo, Theotokos and Christ. Reading order: up/right/left/down.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: Leon Sakellarios (10th c.) - PMBZ: 26573: "Personenkennziffer: 24419" - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: Theotokos
Comment	Mango (2011: 65): 'Next to the donor's image is the legend: Λέων πατρίκιος πραιπόσιτος κ(αὶ) σακελάριος προσφέρων τὴν ἑξηκοντάβιβλον τὴν ὑπεραγίαν Θεοτόκον [sic], i.e "Leo, patrician, praepositus and sakellarios offering the corpus of sixty books to the most-holy Theotokos".'
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.gr.1.pt.B/0012
Bibliography	Primary C. Mango 2011, The Epigrams, in P. Canart (ed.), La Bible du Patrice Léon. Codex Reginensis Graecus 1, Città del Vaticano, 59-79: 65 T. Mathews 1977, The Epigrams of Leo Sacellarios and an Exegetical Approach to the Miniatures of Vat. Reg. Gr. 1, Orientalia Christiana periodica, 43, 94-134: 126 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 476-477 I. Spatharakis, 1976, The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Leiden: 10 Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2003, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 1), Vienna: 193, 348
Number of verses	7
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: Contributor(s) Kristoffel Demoen - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Rachele Ricceri - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Julián Bértola - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Maria Tomadaki - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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