Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24070
(formerly occ/8031)

	(...)ο(...)ω πόθω τάχιστα τοὺς ἀποστόλους:
	λουκᾶν ἰωάννην τε ματθαῖον μάρκον:
	ἀνιστόρησε προστάτας αἰτῶν ἔχειν.
	τούτων μυηθεὶς τοὺς λόγους Cɷhstαhtihos.

Type(s)	[6260] [Πολλ]ῷ πόθῳ τάχιστα τοὺς ἀποστόλους (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1070
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 1096 [1070]
Place in Manuscript	f. 1v
Person(s)	Patron Konstantinos (11th c.) - VGH: 387.E (presbyteros) Scribe Petros (11th c.) - RGK: II.480 - VGH: 387.E (grammatikos)
Palaeographical information	The epigram is written in epigraphische Auszeichnungsmajuskel and accompanies a miniature of the four evangelists.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	Four Evangelists John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Konstantinos (11th c.) - VGH: 387.E (presbyteros) Luke (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Mark (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Comment	Rhoby (2015: 27): 'To highlight the donor's name, the scribe Petros chose to mix the Greek and Latin alphabets. In so doing, he imitated the style of similar script on Byzantine coins and imperial lead seals up to the middle Byzantine period'.
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b11004391k/f2.image
Bibliography	Primary A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 147-149 Secondary A. Rhoby 2015, Inscriptions and Manuscripts in Byzantium: A Fruitful Symbiosis?, in M. Maniaci, P. Orsini (eds.), Scrittura epigrafica e scrittura libraria: fra Oriente e Occidente, Cassino, 15-44: 27
Number of verses	4
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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