Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22973
(formerly occ/6869)

	+ τὸν χοῦν ὁ τῆς γῆς τὴν ὕπαρξην ἀχρόνως:
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Type(s)	[5671] [Τ]ὸν χοῦν ὁ τῆς γῆς τὴν ὕπαρξην ἀχρόνως (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	926-975
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Reg. gr. 1 [926-975]
Place in Manuscript	f. IIv
Person(s)	Patron Leon Sakellarios (10th c.) - PMBZ: 26573: "Personenkennziffer: 24419"
Palaeographical information	The epigram (partly damaged) is written in red ink, in biblical majuscule.
Contextual information	The epigram surrounds a miniature depicting three scenes from Genesis.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Eva Moses
Comment	Lauxtermann (2003: 191): 'It is worth noticing that the first epigram, on the book of Genesis, focuses on the concept of time. There God is said to have made heaven and earth "timeless" (ἀχρόνως), but to have created man "within time" (ὑπὸ χρόνου)'.
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.gr.1.pt.B/0008
Bibliography	Primary C. Mango 2011, The Epigrams, in P. Canart (ed.), La Bible du Patrice Léon. Codex Reginensis Graecus 1, Città del Vaticano, 59-79: 67 T. Mathews 1977, The Epigrams of Leo Sacellarios and an Exegetical Approach to the Miniatures of Vat. Reg. Gr. 1, Orientalia Christiana periodica, 43, 94-134: 124 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 479-480 Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2003, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 1), Vienna: 191, 348 D. Olster 1994, Byzantine Hermeneutics after Iconoclasm: Word and Image in the Leo Bible, Byzantion, 64, 419-458: 438 A. Rhoby 2015, Inscriptions and Manuscripts in Byzantium: A Fruitful Symbiosis?, in M. Maniaci, P. Orsini (eds.), Scrittura epigrafica e scrittura libraria: fra Oriente e Occidente, Cassino, 15-44: 16-17 I. Spatharakis, 1976, The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Leiden: 8
Number of verses	6
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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