Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

• John Georgides (10th c.)
• Olympiodoros of Alexandria (6th c.)

• Acrostic
• Beauty of the book
• Completion of the book
• Spiritual value of the book

• See the beauty of these writings
  – how lovely and wonderful, how full of knowledge it is –
  and take it unhindered, use it readily,
  for it enriches the mind on the way to virtue.
  The law gives instructions and so does nature before the law;
  of these the light of grace is the completion.
  So it befits to take abundantly, as from honey,
  from the sweetness contained here.

  Language

  English

  Source(s)

  K. Bentein, F. Bernard, K. Demoen, M. De Groote 2010, New Testament Book Epigrams, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 103(1), 13-23: 18

• Regarde la splendeur de ce livre:
  qu’il est beau, extraordinaire et plein de connaissance.
  Prends le librement, et utilise le avec empressement,
  car il enrichit l’esprit qui prend le chemin de la vertu.
  C’est ce que nous instruit la loi, et avant la loi la nature;
  leur fin, c’est la lumière de la grâce.
  C’est pourquoi il convient de se servir abondamment
  des douceurs que voici, comme du miel.

  Language

  French

  Source(s)

  K. Demoen 2012, La poésie de la συλλογή. Les paratextes métriques des manuscrits byzantins et le (vocabulaire du) recueil, in C. Gastgeber, C. Messis, D. Muresan, F. Ronconi (eds.), Pour l'amour de Byzance. Hommage à Paolo Odorico, Frankfurt am Main, 89-98: 95

• [17368] ἰδὼν τὸ κάλλος ὧδε τῶν γεγραμμένων [11th c.]
  PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 26 [10th-11th c.] (f. 1v)
  (8 verses)
• [21237] Ἰδὼν τὸ κάλλος ὧδε τῶν γεγραμμένων [10th c.]
  VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 23 (coll. 496) [10th c.] (f. 101v)
  (7 verses)

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• Vassis ICB 2005, 358: "In gnomologium Ioannis Georgidae"
• Vassis ICB 2011, 230: "In Ps.-Oecumenii commentarium in Actus Apostolorum"