Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 1994
(formerly typ/85)

Θεὸν γεραίρει στεῖρα τίκτουσα ξένως.

Text source	A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 518-519
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Odes
Tag(s)	Division of the book Reference to content of the book Title
Translation(s)	Die Unfruchtbare preist Gott, indem sie auf wundersame Weise gebiert. Language German Source(s) A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 519
Comment	This metrical title precedes Ode 3. Belongs to an 'other set of headings' for the Odes that Mearns describes as 'much less usual' (1914: 13).
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 54 A. Cutler, 1984, The Aristocratic Psalters in Byzantium, Paris: 94 S. Der Nersessian 1965, A Psalter and New Testament Manuscript at Dumbarton Oaks, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 19, 153-183: 158 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 G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 246 display 3 more references (6 in total) hide 3 references (6 in total)
Number of verses	1
Occurrence(s)	[26963] θ(εὸ)ν γεραίρει στεῖρα τίκτουσα ξένως [12th c.] ATHOS - Mone Stauroniketa 46 [12th c.] (f. 411v) (1 verse) [17234] θεὸν γεραίρει στεῖρα τίκτουσα ξένως [1078] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Clarke 15 [1078] (f. 238v) (1 verse) [33127] θ(εὸ)ν γεραίρει στεῖ\|ρα τίκτουσα ξέ\|νως [12th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 260 [12th c.] (f. 269r) (1 verse) [27015] Θ(εὸ)ν γεραίρει στεῖρα τίκτουσα ξένως [13th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 610 [976-1000] (f. 250r) (1 verse) [17453] θ(εὸ)ν γεραίρει στεῖρα τίκτουσα ξένως [1084] WASHINGTON D.C. - Dumbarton Oaks 3 [1084] (f. 75r) (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, US28 Vassis ICB 2005, 335: "Odae tertiae inscriptio"
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