Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23164
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	ἡ βίβλος ༶

	Βίβλος προειμι δογματων θεηλογων·
	ἰδμων πέλουσα καὶ ἀριστος ἠ θέμις·
	βράβευσον ἠ βούλει με πᾶσιν ἀφθόνως·
	λαβὼν ὅμωσγε βίβλον ἀντιχειρίαν·
	οὕτως ὄρεξον τοῖς ἄτερ ζῶσι φθόνου·
	σκεοὶ γάρ εἰσιν τῶν λιτούντων σωρια ༶

Type(s)	[3342] Βίβλος πρόειμι δογμάτων θεηλόγων (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	10th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 2061 [10th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 135v
Person(s)	Scribe Basileios (10th-11th c.)
Palaeographical information	Written in majuscule, in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Comment	The initials of the first word on each line form the acrostic 'ΒΙΒΛΟΣ'.
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.2061/0274
Bibliography	Primary I. Hutter, 2022, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Corpus der Italogriechischen dekorierten Handschriften der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (vol. 6.1), Stuttgart: 20 V. Somers 1999, Quelques poèmes en l'honneur de S. Grégoire de Nazianze: édition critique, traduction et commentaire, Byzantion, 69(2), 528-564: 542
Number of verses	6
Related occurrence(s)	[23163] Βίβλος πρόειμι δογμάτων \| θεηλόγων [10th-11th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Conv. Soppr. 177 [10th-11th c.] (f. 1v) (6 verses) (4/6) [17206] Βίβλος πρόειμι δογμάτων θεηλόγων [10th-11th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 7, Cod. 8 [11th c.] (f. 158r) (6 verses) (5/6) [22554] Βίβλος πρόειμι δογμάτων θεηλόγων [01/09/971-31/08/972] LONDON - British Library - Add. 18231 [01/09/971-31/08/972] (f. 87r) (6 verses) (4/6)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Rachele Ricceri Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Eleonora Lauro, Kyriaki Giannikou The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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