Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22373
(formerly occ/6251)

στίχοι εἰς τ(ὸ) ἅγ(ιον) εὐα(γγέλιον) ἰω(άννου):
 
ὁ παρθένος τί. τὸν τεκόντ(α) τὸν κάτω·
λιπὼν τεκόντ(α) τὸν θ(εὸ)ν κτᾶται μόνο(ν):
ὡς παρθέν(ος) γὰρ πρὸς τὸν ἐκ τῆς παρθ(έ)ν(ου)·
λαλοῦντα χ(ριστὸ)ν οἷα συγγενὴς τρέχει:
ἐντεῦθεν εἰς τὸ στῆθος αὐτοῦ γνησί(ως):
πεσὼν ἐκεῖθεν τὴν ἄβυσσον λαμβά(νει):
τῆς γνώσεως (καὶ) πάντ(α) πλουτεῖ τὸν κόσμ(ον):
μυστηρίων ἄγνωστα καὶ τοῖς ἀγγέλοις.
θεηγόροις τέταρτος οὖν ἰωάννης:
εὐαγγελισταῖς ἀλλ᾽ ἐν ὕψει δογμάτ(ων):
πρῶτος μέγιστο(ς) ἄκρο(ς) ἀρχὴν καὶ τέλο(ς):
Type(s) [2029] Ὁ παρθένος τί; Τὸν τεκόντα τὸν κάτω (11 verses)
Text source DBBE
Text status Text completely known
Date 12th c.
Manuscript VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. app. I 3 [12th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 240r
Palaeographical information The title and initial letters of each verse are written in a distinctive colour.
Contextual information Written among other texts before the beginning of the gospel of John.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s) Author-related epigram
Subject(s) John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s) http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/modules/papyri/?zoom=55&left=3&top=-644&site=INTF&image=30217/0/3470/10/2457
Bibliography

Primary

C. Castellani, 1895, Catalogus codicum graecorum qui in bibliothecam D. Marci Venetiarum inde ab Anno MDCCXL ad haec usque tempora inlati sunt, Venice: 4-5

Secondary

E. Mioni, 1967, Bibliothecae Divi Marci Venetiarum codices Graeci manuscripti. Codices in classes a prima usque ad quintam inclusi. Classis I, classis II, codd. 1-120 (vol. 1.1), Rome: 7-8
Number of verses 11
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung'.

Creator(s)
Maria Tomadaki
Contributor(s)
Julián Bértola

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