Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 26364
(formerly occ/10419)

+ εἰς νόον αἰγλήεντα, θεόγραφα χείλεα βάψας,
κάλλεα ποικίλλεις ἠδ᾿ ἱερωνυμίην.
καὶ μετὰ πότμον ζωοσόφοισι λόγοισιν ὄντως,
ὕμνους δὴ κελαδῶν τοὺς θεοφάντορας ἦ:-
Type(s) [1931] Εἰς νόον αἰγλήεντα θεόγραφα χείλεα βάψας (3 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 14th-15th c.
Manuscript MODENA - Biblioteca Estense Universitaria α. T. 9. 08 (Puntoni 45; olim II B 8) [14th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 34r
Palaeographical information Written in the lower margin by a different hand. Next to the epigram, the same hand wrote + διωρθωθέντ(α) παρ᾿ ἑμοῦ ζαχαρίου:
Contextual information The epigram precedes the work 'De Divinis Nominibus' by Ps.-Dionysius the Areopagite.
Metre(s) Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)
Subject(s) Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Comment The usual occurrences of this type, one of which is written higher on the same folio, have three instead of four verses.
Bibliography

Primary

S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 67

Secondary

C. Samberger, 1965, Catalogi codicum graecorum qui in minoribus bibliothecis Italicis asservantur (vol. 1), Leipzig: 327
Number of verses 4
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Sien De Groot
Transcriber(s)
Sien De Groot
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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