Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22976
(formerly occ/6871)

	+ οἱ τῆς παλαιᾶς ἱερεῖς καὶ λευῖται:
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Type(s)	[5676] Οἱ τῆς παλαιᾶς ἱερεῖς καὶ λευῖται (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	926-975
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Reg. gr. 1 [926-975]
Place in Manuscript	f. 85v
Person(s)	Patron Leon Sakellarios (10th c.) - PMBZ: 26573: "Personenkennziffer: 24419"
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink, in biblical majuscule.
Contextual information	The epigram surrounds a miniature depicting Moses, Aaron and Levites carrying the Ark of the Covenant.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Moses
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.gr.1.pt.B/0017
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: 69 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: 128 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 481-482 Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2003, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 1), Vienna: 348
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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