Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21088
(formerly occ/4812)

	στίχοι κρητοπούλου μιχαὴλ τοῦ ἰμβρύου:

	ὅστις ἔρωτα θ(εο)ῦ ἔσχεν εὐφρόνως·
	καὶ πῦρ ἀνῆψεν ἀ\|γάπης ἐν καρδία·
	ἀλοὺς ὅλος γε τῶ πόθω τοῦ \| δεσπότου,
	καὶ κατοχὴν δὲ ἐμπνευσθεὶς θειοτέραν, \|
	τὸν ἄνδρα τοῦτον ἐκτόπως θαυμαζέτω· \|
	τὸν θεῖον ὄντως καὶ σεπτὸν αὐγουστῖνον
	τοῦ δια\|καοῦς ἔρωτος καὶ τοῦ πάθους·
	καὶ τῆς ἐνθέου κα\|τοχῆς τε καὶ ξένης·
	ὅλην γὰρ ἐξέχεε τὴν ψυ\|χὴν ὅδε,
	πρὸς τὸν ἔρωτα τοῦ θ(εο)ῦ τε καὶ πλάστου· \|
	ἔκφρων γεγονὼς ὅλος ἠλλοιωμένος·
	τὴν \| θείαν ὄντως ἀλλοίωσιν καὶ ξένην.
	τὸ δὲ βιβλίον \| συνεχῶς ἐπιέτω
	ἀεὶ μελετ(ῶν) καὶ πρὸσλαλ(ῶν) τῶ κτί\|στη·
	καὶ φῶς νοερ(ὸν) εἰσάγων ἐν καρδία·
	ὁδὸς γάρ ἐστι τοῦτο \| τῆς μετανοί(ας)·
	καὶ θύρα ζω(ῆς) πρὸ(ς) σωτηρί(αν) ἄγον:·

Type(s)	[4578] ὅστις ἔρωτα θεοῦ ἔσχεν εὐφρόνως (17 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1451-1475
Manuscript	FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 59, Cod. 13 [1451-1475]
Place in Manuscript	f. 289r
Person(s)	Scribe Georgios Eugenikos son of Ioannes (1451-1500) - RGK: I.62 - PLP: III.6187
Palaeographical information	Title and initial in red ink.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Augustine of Thagaste < Algeria (13/11/354 - 28/08/430)
Image source(s)	http://teca.bmlonline.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=TECA0000868792&keyworks=plut.59.13#page/601/mode/1up http://mss.bmlonline.it/s.aspx?Id=AWOItk5ZI1A4r7GxMMLt&c=Diversorum%20scriptorum%20Opera%20varia#/oro/601
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 522 D. Reinsch, 1983, Critobuli Imbriotae Historiae, Berolini et Novi Eboraci: 16*
Number of verses	17
Related occurrence(s)	[21081] ὅστις ἔρωτα θεοῦ ἔσχεν εὐφρόνως [1463] ATHOS - Mone Dionysiou 440 [1451-1500] (f. 177v) (17 verses) (17/17)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Nina Vanhoutte Contributor(s) Lotte van Olmen, 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.
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