Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19307
(formerly occ/2767)

	+ νῖκος λαοῦ μοχθηρᾶς τῆς κακουργίας:
	καὶ τῶν πο\|νηρῶν πνευμάτων δίδου μάκαρ:
	τῶ την μονην σοι προς μονὰς ζωης θέειν: \|
	ξενοτρόπως αὖθις τε τω δειμαμένω:
	νέμων κατάμφω την χάριν τῶ μεν κράτος: \|
	ιλασμὸν ἔνθε τῶ δε τῶν ὁφλημάτων:-

Type(s)	[3671] Νῖκος λαοῦ μοχθηρᾶς τῆς κακουργίας (6 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. 3r
Person(s)	Patron Leon Sakellarios (10th c.) - PMBZ: 26573: "Personenkennziffer: 24419"
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink, in biblical majuscule.
Contextual information	The epigram surrounds a miniature of Saint Nicholas with Konstantinos (brother of Leon) and the abbot Makar kneeling at his feet.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	Nicholas of Myra < Lycia < Asia Minor < Turkey (saint) (4th c.)
Comment	Mango (2011: 59) characterizes the epigram as dedicatory.
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.gr.1.pt.B/0013
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: 65-66 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: 126-128 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 477-479 I. Spatharakis, 1976, The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Leiden: 11 Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2003, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 1), Vienna: 348
Number of verses	6
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Maria Tomadaki, Floris Bernard The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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