| Title(s) |
Στίχοι εἰς τὸν εὐαγγελιστὴν Ἰωάννην / Στίχοι εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Ἰωάννην τὸν Εὐαγγελιστήν.
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| Text source |
A. Kominis 1951, Συναγωγὴ ἐπιγραμμάτων εἰς τοὺς τέσσαρας Εὐαγγελιστάς, Ἐπετηρὶς Ἑταιρείας Βυζαντινῶν Σπουδῶν (EEBS), 21, 254-261: 275
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| Text status |
Text completely known |
| Editorial status |
Not a critical text |
| Genre(s) |
Author-related epigram
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| Person(s) |
- Poet
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Niketas David Paphlagon (9th c. - 10th c.) - PMBZ: 27866: "Personenkennziffer: 25712"
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| Metre(s) |
Dodecasyllable
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| Subject(s) |
John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
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| Tag(s) |
Spiritual value of the book
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| Critical Notes |
v. 1 τί] τὲ (Hörandner 2000: 80)
This would imply the poem was not an isolated case, but a part of a cycle of four epigrams in honour of the evangelists.
v. 4 καλοῦντα] Λαλοῦντα (Ioannidis 1864b: 146)
v. 10 εὐαγγελιστὴς] Εὐαγγελισταῖς (Ioannidis 1864b: 146) |
| Translation(s) |
How righteous he is, the one who left behind his father
To acquire One God the Creator.
How righteous he is, he who runs, like to a relative, to Christ
The one born of the Virgin, because he called him.
For this, he falls faithfully to His chest,
and that is why it encapsulates with his mind the depths of
knowledge and enriches the entire universe
with mysteries unknown even to angels.
So John is the fourth to speak of God,
But as for the pinnacle of the right teaching he is
The first, the greatest, the brightest, the beginning and the end.
- Language
- English
- Source(s)
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C. Bălteanu 2020, Catena: Note Introductive la Textul Exegetic al Manuscrisului / The Catena: Introductory Notes to the Exegetic Text of the Manuscript, in Studii despre Tetraevanghelul grecesc de la Muzeul Olteniei din Craiova (sec. al XII-lea) / Studies on the Greek Tetraevangelion from the Museum of Oltenia in Craiova (12th Century), Craiova, 109-147: 141-143
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| Comment |
Papadopoulos-Kerameus (1897: 206): "Στίχοι εἰς τὸν εὐαγγελιστὴν Ἰωάννην"
Hörander (2000: 80): An epigram of Niketas David Paphlagon in honour of St John the Evangelist, who recieves the epithet παρθένος. |
| Bibliography |
Primary
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C. Bălteanu 2020, Catena: Note Introductive la Textul Exegetic al Manuscrisului / The Catena: Introductory Notes to the Exegetic Text of the Manuscript, in Studii despre Tetraevanghelul grecesc de la Muzeul Olteniei din Craiova (sec. al XII-lea) / Studies on the Greek Tetraevangelion from the Museum of Oltenia in Craiova (12th Century), Craiova, 109-147: 141
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C. Castellani, 1895, Catalogus codicum graecorum qui in bibliothecam D. Marci Venetiarum inde ab Anno MDCCXL ad haec usque tempora inlati sunt, Venice: 4-5
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S. Eustratiades, S. Lauriotes, 1925, Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts in the Library of the Laura on Mount Athos, Cambridge: 3-4
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W. Hörandner 2000, Randbemerkungen zum Thema Epigramme und Kunstwerke, in C. Scholz, G. Makris (eds.), Polypleuros Nous. Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag, München, 69-82: 80
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E. Ioannidis 1864, Βιβλιογραφία. Περὶ τινῶν Εὐαγγελίων ἐπὶ μεμβράνης, Ὁ ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει Ἑλληνικὸς Φιλολογικὸς Σύλλογος, 2, 141-148: 146
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M. Lauxtermann, 2019, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 2), Vienna: 278
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F. Lebrun, 1997, Nicétas le Paphlagonien: sept homélies inédites, Leuven: 31
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I. Sakkelion, 1890, Πατμιακὴ Βιβλιοθήκη, Athens: 60
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C. Stornajolo, 1895, Codices Urbinates Graeci, Rome: 7
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H. von Soden, 1902, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. Untersuchungen. Die Textzeuge (vol. 1.1), Berlin: 381
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C. von Tischendorf, 1855, Anecdota sacra et profana, Leipzig: 27
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| Number of verses |
11 |
| Occurrence(s) |
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| Related type(s) |
[1883] Βροντῆς τὸν υἱὸν τίς βροτῶν μὴ θαυμάσῃ
(5 verses)
(Same cycle)
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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 |
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| Permalink |
https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/2029 |
