Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20247
(formerly occ/3898)

	† τον νοῦν [πυ]ρώ̣σας πρὸς βάθος νοημάτων
	καὶ τὴν ἄνωθεν γνῶσιν εἰς δεδεγμένος·
	ὦ παν(?) μέγιστ(…) βασιλεις τρισμάκαρ
	δει(?)λ(…)ν τετευχας(?) ἡθικῶν μεκασμενην:
	πάντας (…) αὐτῆς εἰσάγων εἰσαπλέτους
	τρυ(?)φὰς ἀληκτους εἰς νόμας ακηράτους
	πολλοῖς δὲ πληγεὶς π(…)ίσμασιν τη(.) καρδί(…)
	(…)σε προσκαλοῦμαι προὸς θεὸν πρεσβιν με(…)
	ὅπως λιταῖς (…)

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Type(s)	[4126] Τὸν νοῦν πυρώσας πρὸς βάθος νοημάτων (9 verses)
Text source	N. Sietis, 2024, Alle origini della minuscola libraria greca. Catalogo dei manoscritti (vol. 2), Roma: 161 (Bibliography)
Text status	Text partially unknown
Date	16/07/899
Manuscript	GLASGOW - University Library - Hunter 407-408 (V.3.5-6) [16/07/899]
Place in Manuscript	f. 381v
Person(s)	Scribe Ignatios (9th c.) - RGK: I.148 - VGH: 159.A - PMBZ: 24881: "Personenkennziffer: 22727" (monachos)
Palaeographical information	Young (1908: 328): 'in the same hand as the rest of the manuscript'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Comment	Young (1908: 328): 'some nine iambic verses decipherable with difficulty'. Des Places (1961: 7): 'In Glasg. V. 3. 6 we find on the verso of the last folio (381) nine iambic trimeters, of which only the first two are reproduced in Young and Aitken's catalogue with dots in the first line, before ... ρώσας; we ought, perhaps, to read <πυ>ρώσας. Thus, we would have: τὸν νοῦν <πυ>ρώσας πρὸς βάθος νοημάτων. This is the scribe's usual final song of praise on the spiritual usefulness of the work'. Sietis 2024 (161): "A f. 381v si trova un epigramma in trimetri giambici, con ogni probabilità correlato con il termine della trascrizione e dunque della fatica che ne deriva".
Bibliography	Primary E. Des Places, A. Wasserstein 1961, Note on Ms. Glasgow Univ. Libr. V. 3. 5-6, The Classical Review, 11(1), 7: 7 J. Young, P. Aitken, 1908, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow., Glasgow: 328
Number of verses	9
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Raf Praet Contributor(s) Sarah-Helena Van den Brande, Rachele Ricceri, Eleonora Lauro The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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