Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22528
(formerly occ/6421)

	Οὐρανίων θεάσων ἱεράρχια τάγματα μέλψας
	μορφοφανῶν \| τε τύπων· κρύφιον νόον εἰς φάος ἔλκων·
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Type(s)	[2044] Οὐρανίων θιάσων ἱεράρχια τάγματα μέλψας (3 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a microfilm of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th c.
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - theol. gr. 65 [13th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 75r
Person(s)	Scribe Sabbas - PLP: X.24618 (monastes)
Contextual information	Immediately preceded by another epigram, inc. ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης· ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας. Both epigrams follow after the work 'De Caelesti Hierarchia' by Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Image source(s)	https://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_8732022&order=1&view=SINGLE
Bibliography	Primary S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 76 H. Hunger, O. Kresten, 1976, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Codices Theologici 1-100, (vol. 3.1), Vienna: 122 P. Lambeck (auth.); A. Kollar (ed.), 1776, Petri Lambecii Hamburgensis Commentariorum de Augustissima Bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi (vol. 3), Vienna: 186-187 Secondary A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 335
Number of verses	3
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Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Patristik: Dionysius-Areopagita)’. Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas Transcriber(s) Sien De Groot Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Sien De Groot The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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