Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21430
(formerly occ/5245)

Ἐπίγραμμα εἰς τὸν ἅγιον διονύσιον εἰς τὸ περὶ μυστικῆς θεολογίας:-
 
καὶ νόον αἰγλήεντα λίπες κάτω. καὶ γνώσιν ἐόντων:
νύκτα δι᾿ ἀμβροσίην τὴν, οὐ θέμις ἐξονομῆναι: +
Type(s) [2003] Καὶ νόον αἰγλήεντα λίπες καὶ γνῶσιν ἐόντων (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. 312r
Palaeographical information Written in red ink.
'στίχοι ἡρωικοί' is written above the title.
Contextual information The epigram precedes the work 'De Mystica Theologia' by Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)
Subject(s) Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Comment In the first verse, the word κάτω is added to the usual text of the type. As a consequence, the meter of the verse is incorrect.
Devreesse (1945: 75): 'au début (f. 312) note sur les ouvrages de Denys (...), épigramme, index des chapitres'.
Image source(s) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b110040383/f320.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: 69-70

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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