Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20088
(formerly occ/3718)

Ἐεπίγραμματα εἰς τὸν μακάριον διονύ|σιον εἰς τὸ περὶ τ(ῆς) ἐκκλησιαστικῆς | ἱεραρχίας :·
 
Σσύμβολα θεσπεσίων ἱερῶν ἑνοειδεϊ | μύθω:
εἰς ἑνικὴν ἀνέλυσας ἑνὸς | φαέος μίαν αἴγλην:·
Type(s) [2385] Σύμβολα θεσπεσίων ἱερῶν ἑνοειδέϊ μύθῳ (2 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a microfilm of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 14th c.
Manuscript OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Canonici gr. 97 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 55r
Palaeographical information The first letters of the title and the first line are written twice: once as an enlarged initial and once in minuscule script.
Contextual information The epigram precedes the work 'De Ecclesiastica Hierarchia' by Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)
Subject(s) Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Comment Coxe (1969: 91): 'De ecclesiastica hierarchia, cum epigrammate et capitulis praemissis'.
Bibliography

Primary

S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 65-66

Secondary

H. Coxe, 1969, The collection of the Abate Matteo Luigi Canonici, Oxford: 91
Number of verses 2
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Patristik: Dionysius-Areopagita​)’.

Creator(s)
Renaat Meesters
Transcriber(s)
Sien De Groot
Contributor(s)
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.
Permalink https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/20088
Last modified: 2021-12-14.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.