Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 35687

	ὦ πάντ(ων) ἐπέκεινα· τί γὰρ θέμις ἄλλο σε μέλπειν·
	πῶς λόγος ὑμνήσει σε· σὺ γὰρ λόγω οὐδενί ῥητός·
	μοῦνος ἐών ἄφραστος· ἐπεὶ τέκες ὅσσα λαλεῖτ(αι)·
	πῶς νόος ἀθρήσει σε· σὺ γὰρ νόω οὐδενί ληπτός·
	μοῦνος ἐὼν ἄγνωστος· ἐπεὶ τέκες ὅσσα νοεῖτ(αι)·
	πάντα σε καὶ λαλέοντα καὶ οὐ λαλέοντα λιγαίνει·
	πάντα σε καὶ νοέοντα καὶ οὐ νοέοντα γεραίρει·
	ξυνοὶ γάρ τε πόθοι· ξυναί δ᾿ ὠδῖνες ἁπάντων·
	ἀμφὶ σέ· σοὶ δὲ τὰ πάντα προσεύχετ(αι) εἰς σὲ δὲ πάντα
	σύνθεμα σὸν νοέοντα λαλεῖ σιγώμενον ὕμνον·
	σοὶ ἔνι, πάντα μένει· σεῦ δ᾿ ἀθρόα πάντα θοάζει·
	καὶ πάντων τέλος ἐσσί· καὶ εἷς καὶ πάντα ὑπάρχεις·
	οὐχ ἓν ἐών· οὐ πάντα· πολύλλογε πῶς σε καλέσσω·
	τὸν μόνον ἀκλήϊστον· ὑπερφανέας δὲ καλύπτρας·
	τίς νόος οὐρανίδης εἰσδύσεται· ἵλαος εἴης·
	ὦ πάντων ἐπέκεινα· τί γὰρ θέμις ἄλλο σε μέλπειν:~

Type(s)	[7032] Ὦ πάντων ἐπέκεινα - τί γὰρ θέμις ἄλλο σε μέλπειν (16 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1455-1460
Manuscript	MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 547 [1455-1460]
Place in Manuscript	f. Iv
Person(s)	Scribe Basileios Bessarion (1399-1400 - 18/11/1472) - RGK: I.41, II.61, III.77 - VGH: 59.E - PLP: II.2707 (kardinalios)
Palaeographical information	The epigram was written by Bessarion on a piece of parchment, glued on the verso of a paper flyleaf.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the beginning of the manuscript, containing works by Proklos and Porphyry.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Hymnography
Image source(s)	https://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0010/bsb00108711/images/index.html?id=00108711&seite=4
Bibliography	Primary S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 175 I. Hardt, 1812, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum Bibliothecae Regiae Bavaricae. Cod. CCCCLXXIII-DLXXX continens (vol. 5), Munich: 366 C. Macé 2023, The ‘Hymn to What Is Beyond Everything’ Attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite and Gregory of Nazianzus, Byzantion, 93, 193-221: 220 Secondary S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 192 C. Macé 2023, The ‘Hymn to What Is Beyond Everything’ Attributed to Dionysius the Areopagite and Gregory of Nazianzus, Byzantion, 93, 193-221: 204
Number of verses	16
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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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