Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20836
(formerly occ/4537)

ἐπίγρ(αμμα)
 
Μουσοπόλας μελεδῶνας ἐνι πραπιδέσσιν ἐλίξας,
μόνος ἐνι μερόπεσσι | μακάρτατον εὕραο κῦδος·
ῥήτρην εὐκέλαδον γλυκεροις στομάτεσσιν | ἀείσας,
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Type(s) [2376] Μουσοπόλας μελεδῶνας ἐνὶ πραπίδεσσιν ἑλίξας (4 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a microfilm of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 11th c.
Manuscript ATHENS - Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados - Metochion Pan. Taphou 642 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 42v
Palaeographical information The title is written in the left margin.
Contextual information This is the last in a series of three epigrams that precede the work 'De Divinis Nominibus' by Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Subject(s) Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Bibliography

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Number of verses 4
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)
Raf Praet
Transcriber(s)
Sien De Groot
Contributor(s)
Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri, Sien De Groot, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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