| Text status |
Text completely known |
| Editorial status |
Not a critical text |
| Genre(s) |
Text-related epigram
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| Metre(s) |
Dodecasyllable
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| Subject(s) |
Helena (saint, mother of Constantine I) (3rd c. - 4th c.)
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| Tag(s) |
Reference to content of the book
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| Critical Notes |
Ordinem verborum secundum Follieri1979, Montfaucon
Ἑλένης habet Vat. Barb. gr. 462
Ἑλένῃ ἐκ Θεοῦ εὕρεμα ἐδόθη (De Montfaucon 1708, 377; Caravita 1869, 128), εδωθη εκ θεου ευρεμα ελενη (Lake 1939, 10) of Έδόθη εὕρεμα Ἑλένῃ ἐκ Θεοῦ (Bandini I 1961 (repr.), 506 |
| Translation(s) |
The discovery [i.e. of the cross] was given to Helen from God.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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A. Rhoby 2020, Inscriptions and the Byzantine Beholder, in M. Lauxtermann, I. Toth (eds.), Inscribing Texts in Byzantium: Continuities and Transformations, Abingdon, 107-121: 114
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| Comment |
The verse is shown written in a four-arm cross form. The verse is read from the centre of the cross. There is some debate about the order of the verses; the arguments of Follieri1979 are convincing, though. In the cod. Abbat. 431, it follows after a writing about the finding of the cross by Saint Helen. In the other codices, it just seems to fulfil a devotional intention.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography category to be determined
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A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 506
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A. Caravita, 1869, I codici e le arti a Monte Cassino, Montecassino: 128
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B. De Montfaucon, 1708, Palaeographia graeca sive de ortu et progressu literarum graecarum, Paris: 377
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E. Follieri 1979, Due codici greci già Cassinesi oggi alla Biblioteca Vaticana: gli ottob. gr. 250 e 251, in Palaeographica diplomatica et archivistica: studi in onore di Giulio Battelli, Rome, 159-221: 177
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J. Gribomont 1954, Études sur l'histoire du texte de Saint Basile, Scriptorium, 8(2), 298-304: 303
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W. Hörandner 1990, Visuelle Poesie in Byzanz, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB), 40, 1-42: 17
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K. Lake, S. Lake, 1939, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200. Manuscripts in in Florence, Athens, Grottaferrata and the Meteora (vol. 10), Boston: 10
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S. Mercati 1970, Nota sul codex Hauniensis 1343, in S. Mercati (ed.), Collectanea Byzantina (vol. 2), Bari, 79-86: 83
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A. Muñoz, 1906, L'art byzantin à l'exposition de Grottaferrata, Rome: 85
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1 |
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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, 217: "In crucem"
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| Permalink |
https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/1936 |
