Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23936
(formerly occ/7890)

	ἄφες προφῆτα \| βουθυτεῖν ζαχαρία· \|
	τὸν γὰρ νοητὸν ἰσραὴλ \| μόσχον θύει
	δι᾽ οὗ λύ\|σιν πέπονθεν ἡ βουθυ\|σία·
	θύσον δὲ σαυ\|τὸν εἰ καλῶς \| θύειν θέλεις +

Type(s)	[6186] Ἄφες, προφῆτα, βουθυτεῖν, Ζαχαρία (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 407 (Vlad. 25) [12th-14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 112r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram is written inside a headpiece preceding the Gospel of Luke and faces a miniature of the evangelist on f. 111v.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Luke (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Zechariah
Comment	Treu (1966a: 259) gives no text but refers to von Soden (1902: 379). A color image is available in Rhoby (2018: 700).
Bibliography	Primary E. Dobrynina, 2014, New Testament with the Psalter Greek Illuminated Manuscript at the State Historical Museum in Moscow Collected articles edited by E. N. Dobrynina, Moscow: 16, 67 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 383-384 Secondary K. Treu, 1966, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR, Berlin: 259
Number of verses	4
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Kristoffel Demoen
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