Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35513

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	γερασίμου \| μον(α)χ(οῦ)

	ὁ θηκαρουργὸς, (καὶ) διδάσκαλος μέγ(ας)·
	ἑλικοειδεῖς συσκευάζ(ων) εἰκόνας·
	δι' ὧν πενιχρὸς πλοῦτον εὑρίσκει μέγ(αν)·
	ἀφεὶς τὰ πολλὰ τῶν κάτω (καὶ) δυσκόλ(ων)·
	μόνης μεριμνᾶ τῆς ἄνω σωτηρίας:

Type(s)	[35512] Ὁ θηκαρουργὸς καὶ διδάσκαλος μέγας (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 364 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 1v
Palaeographical information	The intials and the title are written in another colour of ink.
Contextual information	The poem is the third in a series of epigrams on the Hymns of Thekaras. It precedes the "fifty gnostic chapters on the Hymns of Thekaras" by Dionysios the monk.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Thekaras
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10722069d/f7.item
Number of verses	5
Acknowledgements	Information on the occurrence courtesy of Georgi Parpulov. Information on the occurrence courtesy of Ioannis Vassis. 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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