| Text source |
S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 71
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| Text status |
Text completely known |
| Editorial status |
Critical text |
| Genre(s) |
Author-related epigram
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| Metre(s) |
Dactylic hexameter
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| Subject(s) |
Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
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| Tag(s) |
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| Translation(s) |
After having entered into the radiant darkness of the single principle,
You bring to light the wise measures of the unerring theology.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 71
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| Comment |
John Scottus Eriugena (9th c.) made a Latin translation of this book epigram, which accompanies his translation of the Corpus Dionysiacum in several manuscripts (cf. De Groot (2021: 346)). |
| Bibliography |
Primary
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A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 57
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V. Lundström 1900, Ramenta byzantina, Eranos, 4, 134-147: 142
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E. Stevenson, 1888, Codices manuscripti graeci Reginae Svecorum et Pii PP. II Bibliothecae Vaticanae, Rome: 24
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| Number of verses |
2 |
| Occurrence(s) |
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| Related type(s) |
[1931] Εἰς νόον αἰγλήεντα θεόγραφα χείλεα βάψας
(3 verses)
(Variant (other wordings))
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| Acknowledgements |
The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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| Identification |
Vassis ICB 2005, 195: "In s. Dionysium (de mystica theologia)"
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| Permalink |
https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/1928 |
