Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23668
(formerly occ/7607)

∙:∙ τὴν δό(σιν?) ὄντ(ως) πν(εύματο)ς παναγίου ∙:∙
∙:∙ ἱπταμένην ἄνωθεν ἐμφανίζει τοῖς κάτω ∙:∙
Type(s) [2772] Τὴν δόσιν ὄντως πνεύματος παναγίου (2 verses)
Text source DBBE
Text status Text completely known
Date 12th-13th c.
Manuscript LONDON - British Library - Egerton 2783 [12th-13th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 106r
Palaeographical information The text is written in red ink, in Alexandrinische Auszeichnungsmajuskel.
Contextual information The epigram accompanies a miniature of a lion, carrying a book. The lion is the symbol of Mark the Evangelist, whose name is written on the image.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s) Image-related epigram
Subject(s) Mark (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Comment In two manuscripts, Athon. Vatop. 937 and Istanbul Skeuofulakion 3, the epigram accompanies a miniature of an eagle, in those cases considered as the symbol of Mark the Evangelist. Since the epigram specifically refers to an eagle (ἱπταμένην ἄνωθεν), there is no coherence between the epigram and the image of the lion. Besides, the same epigram is also used in other manuscripts with reference to John the Evangelist.
Image source(s) http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=egerton_ms_2783_f106r
Bibliography

Primary

Secondary

British Museum, 1894, Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years. 1888-1893, London: 474
Number of verses 2
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Dimitrios Skrekas
Transcriber(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri

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