Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 25647
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	+ 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, each Gospel is introduced by a note in prose and an epigram.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Mark (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b110002532/f196.item https://manuscripts.csntm.org/manuscript/View/GA_5?OSIS=Gal.5.1 https://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/modules/papyri/?zoom=22&left=5&top=5&site=INTF&image=30005/0/3850/10/3055
Bibliography	Primary R. Ricceri 2026, Text and Image, Text as Image: The Beauty of the Book in Byzantine Book Epigrams, in M. Cutino, F. Stella (eds.), Versus ad picturas. Text/Image Relation in Greek, Latin and Arabic Poetry, Berlin, 243-263: 257 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 The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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