Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21425
(formerly occ/5241)

	ἐπίγραμμα εἰς τὸν ἅγιον διονύσιον:-

	Μουσοπόλας μελεδῶνας ἐνὶ πραπίδεσσιν ἑλίξας,
	μοῦνος ἐνὶ μερόπεσσι μακάρτατον εὕραο κῦδος,
	ῥήτρην εὐκέλαδον γλυκεροῖς στομάτεσσιν ἀείσας,
	ὀλβιοτεύκτων ἀνθρώπων ἠγλάισας φῦλα: +

Type(s)	[2376] Μουσοπόλας μελεδῶνας ἐνὶ πραπίδεσσιν ἑλίξας (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1376-1400
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 85 [1376-1400]
Place in Manuscript	f. 10v
Contextual information	The epigram precedes the work 'De Caelesti Hierarchia' by Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Comment	Devreesse (1945: 75): 'cf. Vat. gr. 374, f. 6'.
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b110040383/f14.item
Bibliography	Primary S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 74 R. Devreesse, 1945, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des manuscripts. Catalogue des manuscripts grecs. Le fonds Coislin (vol. 2), Paris: 75
Number of verses	4
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