Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23395
(formerly occ/7378)

	Καὶ τήνδ’ οὐρανίοις σοφίης πολυφράδμονα βίβλον
	ἣν διονύσιος ἡρμόσατο πραπίδεσσιν ἑῆσι,
	κτήσατ᾿ ἀλιτρὸς ἐν θύταισι, γρηγόριος προυσαεύς:-

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)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Gregorios of Prusa < Bithynia < Asia Minor < Turkey (14th c.) (thytes) Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Bibliography	Primary S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 138, 143, 144 (image: plate 14) A. Revilla, 1936, Catálogo de los codices griegos de la Real Biblioteca de El Escorial (vol. 1), Madrid: 363
Number of verses	3
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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