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Occurrence 21386
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	※ στίχοι. εἰς τὸν ἅγιον ἰω(άννην) τὸν ἀπό(στολον) καὶ εὐαγγελιστ(ὴν):-

	Βροντῆς γόνον σὲ χριστὸς εἰκότως ἔφη·
	ὡς τὴν ἄναρχον πατρὸς ἐξ ἀναιτίου·
	γέννησιν αὐτοῦ σοῖς θεοφθόγγοις λόγοις·
	μέγιστα βροντήσαντα τῆ κτίσει πάση·
	εὐαγγελιστὰ παμμάκαρ καὶ παρθένε·
	φωστὴρ ἰωάννη τὲ τῶν ἀποστόλων·
	καὶ πλεῖον αὐτῶν κυρίω πεφιλμένε·
	ἀλλ’ ὡς πρὸς αὐτὸν νῦν ἔχων παρρησίαν:
	ἄνωθεν αἰτοῦ τὴν λύσιν τῶν πταισμάτω(ν)·
	ἐμοὶ δοθῆναι τῶ πόθω κεκτημένω·
	τὴν παντὸς ὄλβου τήνδε τιμιωτέραν·
	τῶν σῶν φαεινῶν δογμάτων θείαν βίβλο(ν):-

Type(s)	[1885] Βροντῆς γόνον σε Χριστὸς εἰκότως ἔφη (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	December 1033
Manuscript	LONDON - British Library - Add. 17470 [December 1033]
Place in Manuscript	f. 220v
Person(s)	Scribe Synesios (11th c.) - RGK: I.370 - VGH: 411.G
Palaeographical information	Written in Alexandrinische Auszeichnungsmajuskel. Title and initials in red ink.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s)	http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_17470_f220v
Bibliography	Primary K. Bentein, F. Bernard 2011, A Cycle of Book Epigrams in Honour of the Four Evangelists., Scriptorium, 65(2), 237-249: 245 W. Hörandner 2000, Randbemerkungen zum Thema Epigramme und Kunstwerke, in C. Scholz, G. Makris (eds.), Polypleuros Nous. Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag, München, 69-82: 79 Secondary A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 322
Number of verses	12
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Renaat Meesters Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Ilse De Vos, Nina Sietis, Floris Bernard The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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