Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21402
(formerly occ/5220)

	ὡς ἐκ τ(ῆ)ς ἀγάπης ἥτις χ(ριστό)ς

	+ ὁ μεσίτης με χ(ριστὸ)ς οὖ\|σαν ἐσχάτην. \|
	πρώτην ἔσεσθαι \| εἶπεν αὐτός εἰ\|μι γάρ· \|
	ἥ γοὖν ταπει\|νὴ τῆ ἀρι\|θμήσει \| βάσις.
	άρχὴ κα\|θ' ὑψός \| εἰμι \| εὐ\|στη\|ρι\|ξίας:·

Type(s)	[4816] Ὁ μεσίτης με Χριστὸς οὖσαν ἐσχάτην (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	10th c.
Manuscript	SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 417 [10th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 13v
Palaeographical information	Written in alexandrinische Auszeichnungsmajuskel.
Contextual information	The epigram is written on the right of a drawing of a diagonal ladder, leaning on the Scala Paradisi.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Heavenly Ladder Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33)
Image source(s)	https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00279380447-ms/?sp=16
Bibliography	Primary K. Corrigan, N. Patterson Ševčenko 2011, 'The teaching of the ladder': The Message of the Heavenly Ladder Image in Sinai ms. gr. 417, in A. Lymberopoulou (ed.), Images of the Byzantine World. Visions, Messages and Meanings. Studies presented to Leslie Brubaker, Farnham / Burlington, 99-120: 102 (image: plate 7.2), 106 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 91-92
Number of verses	4
Related occurrence(s)	[29736] Ὁ μεσίτης με χ(ριστό)ς οὖσαν ἐσχάτη(ν) [946-955] ISTANBUL - Patriarchike Bibliotheke - Hagia Trias 134 [946-955] (f. 2v) (4 verses) (4/4) [22084] ὁ μεσίτης με Χ(ριστὸ)ς οὖσαν ἐσχάτην [11th c.] PATMOS - Mone tou Hagiou Ioannou tou Theologou 121 [11th c.] (f. 3v) (4 verses) (4/4)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Renaat Meesters Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis Contributor(s) 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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