Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 1939
(formerly typ/205)

Τὸν υἱὸν ὑμνεῖ καὶ Θεὸν μήτηρ κόρη.

Text source	A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 522-523
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Theotokos
Tag(s)	Division of the book Reference to content of the book Title
Translation(s)	Den Sohn und Gott preist die jungfräuliche Mutter. Language German Source(s) A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 522
Comment	Metrical title to the ninth Ode. Belongs to an 'other set of headings' for the Odes that Mearns describes as 'much less usual' (1914: 13).
Bibliography	Primary A. Cutler, 1984, The Aristocratic Psalters in Byzantium, Paris: 96 S. Der Nersessian 1940, Remarks on the Date of the Menologium and the Psalter Written for Basil II, Byzantion, 15, 104-125: 159 T. Gaisford, 1812, Catalogus sive notitia manusciptorum qui a cel. E.D. Clarke compariti in Bibliotheca Bodleiana adversantur (vol. 1), Oxford: 61 J. Mearns, 1914, The Canticles of the Christian Church Eastern and Western in Early and Medieval Times, Cambridge: 13
Number of verses	1
Occurrence(s)	[24688] Τὸν υἱὸν ὑμνεῖ καὶ Θεὸν μήτηρ κόρη [14th c.] ATHOS - Mone Dionysiou 93 [14th c.] ((unsure) f. 236r) (1 verse) [24663] τὸν ὑ(ιὸ)ν ὑμνεῖ κ(αὶ) θ(εὸν). μή(τη)ρ κόρη [1104] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Barocci 15 [1104] (f. 370r) (1 verse) [17576] τὸν υἱὸν ὑμνεῖ καὶ θ(εὸ)ν μή(τη)ρ κόρη [1078] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Clarke 15 [1078] (f. 249r) (1 verse) [17223] τὸν ὑιὸν ὑμνεῖ κ(αὶ) θ(εὸ)ν. μή(τη)ρ κόρη [1084] WASHINGTON D.C. - Dumbarton Oaks 3 [1084] (f. 80v) (1 verse) [22698] Τὸν υἱὸν ὑμνεῖ καὶ θεὸν μήτηρ κόρη. [1293] WEIMAR - Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek Q 79a [1293] (f. 80v) (1 verse)
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Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Lotte van Olmen The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	BEiÜ IV, US33 Vassis ICB 2005, 784: "Odae novae inscriptio"
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