Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21566
(formerly occ/5399)

Ὁ χ(ριστὸ)ς αὐτός ἐστιν ἀρχὴ κ(αὶ) τέλος. +

Type(s)	[2422] Ὁ Χριστὸς αὐτός ἐστιν ἀρχὴ καὶ τέλος (1 verse)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1443
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1723 [1443]
Place in Manuscript	f. 309r
Palaeographical information	Omont (1892: 13): 'en minuscule rouge'.
Contextual information	This verse is the first in a series of two poems followed by the date of the manuscript; Omont (1892: 13): 'Ἔτους .ϚϠνα' :·'. After this cluster there is another longer epigram at the bottom of the folio.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33)
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10723161j/f317.item
Bibliography	Primary V. Laurent 1929, Les manuscrits de l'histoire byzantine de Georges Pachymère, Byzantion, 5, 129-205: 163 H. Omont 1892, Les manuscrits grecs datés des XVe et XVIe siècles de la Bibliothèque nationale et des autres bibliothèques de France, Revue des bibliothèques, 1-32 145-215: 13
Number of verses	1
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