Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22734
(formerly occ/6623)

Στίχοι τῆς (αὐτῆς) ἑορτῆς
 
Νῦν, οὐρανέ, σκίρτησον, εὐφράνθητί μοι,
ἡ γῆ δὲ πᾶσα σὺν βροτοῖς χόρευέ μοι·
Θεὸς γὰρ ἐξέλαμψεν ἐκ τῆς παρθένου,
ὁ μητρὸς ἐκτὸς καὶ πατρὸς φανεὶς δίχα,
ὁ πᾶσιν ἀπρόσιτος ἁπτὸς ἀρτίως.
ὦ θαῦμα καινόν· πῶς Θεὸς μικρὸν βρέφος;
μάγοι τὰ δῶρα προσφέρουσι τῷ βρέφει,
νόες τὸν ὕμνον καὶ τὸ θαῦμα ποιμένες,
σπήλαιον ἡ γῆ καὶ φάτνην ἐρημία,
ἄχραντον ἡμεῖς παρθένον καὶ μητέρα.
Type(s) [5515] Νῦν, οὐρανέ, σκίρτησον, εὐφράνθητί μοι (10 verses)
Text source H. Hunger 1982, Gregorios von Korinth Epigramme auf die Feste des Dodekaorton, Analecta Bollandiana, 100, 637-651: 638
Text status Text completely known
Date 1251-1300
Manuscript VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - theol. gr. 128 [1251-1300]
Place in Manuscript f. 8v
Palaeographical information Written in the lower margin.
Contextual information The epigram is written at the bottom of the folio that contains the beginning of Gregorios Pardos' Commentary on the Canon on Christmas by Kosmas the Melodist. It is the first in a series of twelve such epigrams.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Subject(s)
Comment Hunger's apparatus:
4 δίχα ] ἐπεὶ ἦν Θεὸς δί[χα... || ἐπεὶ ἦν καὶ cod. in margine; cetera abscissa sunt.
8 νόες ] ἄγγελοι cod. in margine
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Number of verses 10
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Dimitrios Skrekas
Contributor(s)
Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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