Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23676
(formerly occ/7614)

	·:·ἐνταῦθα μόσχο(ς) ἱερουργί(ας) τύπον·:·
	·:· ἐξεικονίζει κ(αὶ) καλ(ῶς) παρεισάγει·:·

Type(s)	[2770] Ἐνταῦθα μόσχος ἱερουργίας τύπον (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. 166v
Palaeographical information	The text is written in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram accompanies a miniature of a calf facing right and carrying a book. The calf is the symbol of Luke the Evangelist, whose name was possibly written on the image, but is now effaced.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Image-related epigram
Subject(s)	Luke (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s)	http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=egerton_ms_2783_f166bv
Bibliography	Primary R. Nelson, 1978, Text and Image in a Byzantine Gospel Book in Istanbul (Ecumenical Patriarchate, cod. 3), New York: 302 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 255 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)	[23635] ἐνταῦθα μόσχος· ἱερουργίας τύπον [14th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 937 (olim 735) [14th c.] (f. 203v) (2 verses) (2/2) [18446] ἐνταῦθα μόσχος ἱερουργίας τύπον [12th c.] ISTANBUL - Oikoumenikon Patriarcheion Patriarchikon Skeuofulakion 3 [12th c.] (f. 126v) (2 verses) (2/2)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Nina Sietis The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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