Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22977
(formerly occ/6872)

	+ μωσῆς ἀριθμῶν ἰ(σρα)ὴλ τὰς ἐκ γένους:
	φυλὰς μεθῆκεν \| ἰησοῦς δὲ συνθέει:
	ἄλλ᾽ ὁ ξενίσας τὴν χοικὴν οὐσίαν:- \|
	ταύτης ἀριθμὸν ἄλλον ἐκ τῆς ὀσφύος:
	πόρρωθεν οἶμαι τοὺς μαθητὰς εἰσφ\|έρει:
	φυλὴν ἑκάστη πρὸς χριστὸν διαγράφων:-

Type(s)	[5683] Μωσῆς ἀριθμῶν Ἰσραὴλ τὰς ἐκ γένους (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. 116r
Person(s)	Patron Leon Sakellarios (10th c.) - PMBZ: 26573: "Personenkennziffer: 24419"
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink, in Spitzbogenmajuskel.
Contextual information	The epigram surrounds a miniature depicting Moses, Joshua and the twelve tribes of Israel.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Apostles Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Joshua Moses
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.gr.1.pt.B/0021
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: 482-483 Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2003, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 1), Vienna: 348 D. Olster 1994, Byzantine Hermeneutics after Iconoclasm: Word and Image in the Leo Bible, Byzantion, 64, 419-458: 439
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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