Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20356
(formerly occ/4012)

ὁ παρθένος τί· τὸν | τεκόντα τὸν κάτω. |
λιπων. τεκοντα | τὸν θ(εὸ)ν κτᾶται μόνο(ν)· |
ὡς παρθένος γὰρ πρὸ(ς) | τὸν ἐκ τῆς παρθένου, |
καλοῦντα χ(ριστὸ)ν, οἷα συγ|γενὴς τρέχει· |
ἐντεῦθεν εἰς τὸ στῆθο(ς) | αὐτοῦ γνησίως· |
πεσών, ἐκεῖθεν τὴ(ν) | ἄβυσσον λαμβάνει· |
τῆς γνώσεως, (καὶ) πάν|τα πλουτεῖ τὸν κόσμ(ον)· |
μυστηρίων ἄγνωστα | καὶ τοῖς ἀγγέλοις· |
θεηγόρος τέταρτο(ς) | οὖν ἰωάννης· |
εὐαγγελιστής, (?) ἀλ|λʹ ἐν ὕψει δογμάτ(ων) |
πρῶτος· μέγιστος· | ἄκρος· ἀρχὴ, καὶ | τέλος· |
Type(s) [2029] Ὁ παρθένος τί; Τὸν τεκόντα τὸν κάτω (11 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 14th c.
Manuscript ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 936 (olim 734) [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 272v
Palaeographical information Written in Alexandrinische Auszeichnungsmajuskel.
Contextual information The epigram accompanies a miniature of St. John and precedes his Gospel.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)
Subject(s) John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s) http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/modules/papyri/?zoom=39&left=5&top=-54&site=INTF&image=31570/0/5470/10/4220
Bibliography

Secondary

S. Eustratiades, V. Arkadios, 1924, Κατάλογος τῶν ἐν τῇ ἱερᾷ μονῇ Βατοπεδίου ἀποκειμένων κωδίκων, Cambridge: 172
Number of verses 11
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung'.

Creator(s)
Raf Praet
Transcriber(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri

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