Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23395
(formerly occ/7378)

Καὶ τήνδ’ οὐρανίοις σοφίης πολυφράδμονα βίβλον
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Type(s) [5996] Καὶ τήνδ᾿ οὐρανίης σοφίης πολυφράδμονα βίβλον (3 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 14th c.
Manuscript EL ESCORIAL - Real Biblioteca Σ.ΙΙΙ.10 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 219v
Person(s)
Patron
Gregorios of Prusa < Bithynia < Asia Minor < Turkey (14th c.) (thytes)
Palaeographical information The initial is enlarged and written in red ink.
Contextual information The epigram is the last in a series of three epigrams, written at the end of the works by Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)
Subject(s)
Bibliography

Primary

Secondary

S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 143, 144 (image: plate 14), 164-166
Number of verses 3
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Maria Tomadaki
Transcriber(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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