Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 25647
(formerly occ/9680)

+ λεοντόμορφον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου μᾶρκε,
περικαλύψει σῶν ἰχνῶν ἐνδεικνύει,
τὸ κρυπτότατον τοῦ θεανθρώπου λόγου,
καὶ βασιλικὸν τοῦ βροτησίου γένους:
Type(s) [6840] Λεοντόμορφον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου, Μᾶρκε (4 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 1251-1300
Manuscript PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 106 [1251-1300]
Place in Manuscript f. 193v
Person(s)
Scribe
Nikolaos (1251-1300) - RGK: I.327, II.445, III.525 - PLP: III.5048 (anagnostes > ton horon)
Contextual information On this folio there are several epigrams on the Evangelists.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)
Subject(s) Mark (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s)
Bibliography

Primary

H. von Soden, 1902, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. Untersuchungen. Die Textzeuge (vol. 1.1), Berlin: 382

Secondary

H. Maguire, 1996, The Icons of Their Bodies: Saints and Their Images in Byzantium, Princeton: 85
Number of verses 4
Acknowledgements Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung'.

Creator(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Transcriber(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Eleonora Lauro

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