Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22918
(formerly occ/6809)

	Οὐ(ρα)νίων θιάσων ἱεραρχικὰ τάγμ(α)τα μέλψας
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Type(s)	[2044] Οὐρανίων θιάσων ἱεράρχια τάγματα μέλψας (3 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - suppl. gr. 1 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 5r
Person(s)	Scribe George Galesiotes (13th-14th c.) - RGK: I.57, II.77, III.97 - VGH: 72.E - PLP: II.3528
Palaeographical information	The initial is written in red ink. Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Contextual information	The epigram is the last in a series of three that precede works of 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)	http://digital.onb.ac.at/RepViewer/viewer.faces?doc=DTL_7074845&order=16&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, C. Hannick, 1994, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Supplementum Graecum (vol. 4), Vienna: 1-2 A. Kollar, 1790, Petri Lambecii Hamburgensis Commentariorum de Augustissima Bibliotheca Caesarea Vindobonensi. Supplementorum liber primus posthumus (vol. 9), Vienna: 94 Secondary A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 335
Number of verses	3
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout 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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