Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 26587
(formerly occ/10657)

	+ εὕρεμα \| ἐκ θεοῦ \| ἐδώθη \| ἐλένης \|
	στ(αυ)ρὸς \| ὁ θεῖος ⋮ \| τὸ ζωηφό\|ρον ὅπλον ∙:∙ \|
	ἡμῶν \| τῶν πι\|στῶν τὸ \| σθένος \| καὶ ἡ δό\|ξα ∙:∙ \|
	καὶ σ(ωτη)ρία \| καὶ καύ\|χημα ὑ\|πάρχει ∙:∙ +++

Type(s)	[5548] Εὕρεμα ἐκ Θεοῦ ἐδώθη Ἑλένης (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1001-1025
Manuscript	ATHENS - Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados 74 [1001-1025]
Place in Manuscript	f. 1r
Person(s)	Scribe Leon (1001-1050) (areter)
Palaeographical information	The epigram is written in the four corners of a cross. According to Rhoby (2018: 181), the text is to be read in the following order: top two lines of the left upper corner, top two lines of the right upper corner, bottom two lines of the left upper corner, bottom two lines of the right upper corner, left lower corner, right lower corner. Hörander (2007: 110) however, gives the following order for the first verse: 'Εὕρεμα ἐδώθη ἐκ Θεοῦ Ἑλένης'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram
Subject(s)	Helena (saint, mother of Constantine I) (3rd c. - 4th c.) Holy Cross
Image source(s)	https://digitalcollections.nlg.gr/nlg-repo/dl/en/browse/3653
Bibliography	Primary W. Hörandner 2007, Das byzantinische Epigramm und das heilige Kreuz: einige Beobachtungen zu Motiven und Typen, in U. Parente, B. Ulianich (eds.), La Croce. Iconografia e interpretazione (secoli I - inizio XVI). Atti del convegno internazionale di studi (Napoli, 6-11 dicembre 1999), Napoli, Roma, 107-125: 110 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 180-182 A. Rhoby 2020, Interpunktionszeichen in byzantinischen Versinschriften, in C. Brockmann, D. Harlfinger, D. Deckers, S. Valente (eds.), Griechisch-byzantinische Handschriftenforschung. Traditionen, Entwicklungen, neue Wege (vol. 1), Berlin/Boston, 293-302: 114 Secondary M. D'Agostino 1995, Osservazioni codicologiche, paleografiche e storico-artistiche su alcuni manoscritti del "gruppo Ferrar", Rudiae. Ricerche sul mondo classico, 7, 129-150: 139
Number of verses	4
Related occurrence(s)	[17192] ἐλενη ἐκ θεοῦ ἐυρεμα ἐδόθη [1020] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 11, Cod. 9 [1020] (f. 282r) (1 verse) (1/4) [17421] Ελενη εκ θεου ευρεμα εδοθη [1001-1025] MONTECASSINO - Biblioteca della Badia 431 [991-1000] (f. 78v) (1 verse) (1/4) [17422] ἑλένης \| ἐκ θεοῦ \| εὕρεμα \| ἐδόθη [11th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Barb. gr. 462 [11th c.] (f. 277r) (1 verse) (1/4) [17243] εὕρεμα \| ἐκ θεοῦ \| εδ(...)\|λένης [1000] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - theol. gr. 188 [1000] (f. 1r) (4 verses) (4/4)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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