Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20398
(formerly occ/4059)

Ἡρωϊκοὶ εἰς τὸ ἁγίου Εὐαγγελίου τέλος.
 
Κοίρανος ὑψιμέδων θεοῦ υἱὸς αὐτογεννήτωρ
ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἀστερόεντος ἐπ' αἶαν ἀνώρουσε
κούρης ἐξ ἀπειράνδρου εἰδέην ἀνδρομέην φορέσας,
ὄφρ' ὀλλυμένοισι δυσνομίαις Βελίαρ μερόπεσσιν
ὄλβον ὀπάσῃ εἰς αἰθέρ' ἐλεύθερον ἀμβιβάσας,
οὗ δὴ ἔπεα σαόμβρωτα ἐξ ἀφθίτων στομάτων
ἱέντα πινυτῶν διὰ γλωσσῶν πυριφθόγγων ὀπαδῶν
θυμῷ ἱμερόεντι τλήμων συνάγειρα ὧδε τεύξας
Χριστοφόρος Ναζιραίων ἠδὲ Λευιτῶν δύσχρηστος ἄγαν
ἐὼν ὁμειρόμενος εἵνεκα τῶνδε λήψεσθαι λύτρον
ἀμπλακιῶν μεγίστων πλῆθος ἀπειρέσιον.
Λάβε δὲ πέρας πυκτίδι ἐν ἑξάσι χιλιάδων
ἐτέων κοσμογενείας δεκάδι τε πρὸς τέσσαρσι
πεντακοσίοις θ' ἅμα, ἐν ἰνδίκτῳ τετάρτῃ.
Type(s) [4207] Κοίρανος ὑψιμέδων Θεοῦ υἱὸς αὐτογεννήτωρ (14 verses)
Text source S. Mercati 1970, Intorno ai versi sugli otto echi e sui quattro Evangelisti contenuti nel codice del Monte Athos 4279 (Iviron 159) del secolo XV, in S. Mercati (ed.), Collectanea Byzantina (vol. 1), Bari, 626-636: 635
Text status Text completely known
Date 15th c.
Manuscript ATHOS - Mone Iberon 159 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 65r
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Subject(s) Christophoros (11th c.) - VGH: 431.C - PMBZ: 23478: "Personenkennziffer: 21325"
Comment The verses have been copied by a scribe of the 15th century from an 11th-century exemplar. The same epigram can be found in Göttingen, Theol. 28, dated 1289.
Bibliography

Primary

Secondary

S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 150, n. 63
Number of verses 14
Related occurrence(s) [17276] (.)οίρανος ὑψιμέδων θ(εο)ῡ υἱὸς αὐτογεννήτωρ [1289]
GöTTINGEN - Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek - Theol. 28 [1289] (f. 171r)
(14 verses) (14/14)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Renaat Meesters
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri

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