Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21427
(formerly occ/5243)

Ἐπίγραμμα εἰς τὸν ἅγιον διονύσιον· εἰς τὸ περὶ τῆς ἐκκλησια|στικῆς ἱεραρχίας: +
 
Σύμβολα θεσπεσίων ἱερῶν ἑνοειδέι μύθω,
εἰς ἑνικὴν ἀνέλυσας ἑνὸς φάεος μίαν αἴγλην:
Type(s) [2385] Σύμβολα θεσπεσίων ἱερῶν ἑνοειδέϊ μύθῳ (2 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. 100v
Palaeographical information Written in red ink.
Contextual information Immediately followed by the epigram inc. Ου(ρα)νοῦ ἀστερόεντος ἔφυ σέλας ὃς μετὰ πότμον.
The epigrams precede the work 'De Ecclesiastica Hierarchia' by Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)
Subject(s) Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Comment Devreesse (1945: 75): '(ff. 100v-176) de ecclesiastica hierarchia (...) au début, index des chapitres et épigramme'.
Image source(s) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b110040383/f105.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: 65

Secondary

R. Devreesse, 1945, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des manuscripts. Catalogue des manuscripts grecs. Le fonds Coislin (vol. 2), Paris: 75
Number of verses 2
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Raf Praet
Transcriber(s)
Sien De Groot
Contributor(s)
Sien De Groot, Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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