Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2775
(formerly typ/883)

	Ὅραμα φρικτὸν φρῖξον ὧδε πᾶς βλέπων·
	Χριστὸς βροτωθεὶς ἐν φάτνῃ κεῖται βρέφος.

Text source	A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 249-250
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Reader-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Christmas Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33)
Tag(s)	Address to the reader Description of an image Miniature
Translation(s)	Jeder, der du hier den schaudervollen Anblick siehst, erschaudere! Christus, sterblich geworden, liegt als Kind in der Krippe. Language German Source(s) A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 249
Bibliography	Primary S. Eustratiades, V. Arkadios, 1924, Κατάλογος τῶν ἐν τῇ ἱερᾷ μονῇ Βατοπεδίου ἀποκειμένων κωδίκων, Cambridge: 173 R. Nelson, 1978, Text and Image in a Byzantine Gospel Book in Istanbul (Ecumenical Patriarchate, cod. 3), New York: 16, 297 G. Soteriou, 1937, Κειμήλια τοῦ Οἰκουμενικοῦ Πατριαρχείου. Πατριαρχικὸς ναὸς καὶ σκευοφυλάκιον, Athens: 80
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[20357] ὅραμα φρικτὸν. φρίξον ὧδε \| πᾶς βλέπων [14th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 937 (olim 735) [14th c.] (f. 15r) (2 verses) [18449] ὄραμα φρικτὸν φριξον ὧδε πᾶς βλέ(πων) [12th c.] ISTANBUL - Oikoumenikon Patriarcheion Patriarchikon Skeuofulakion 3 [12th c.] (f. 3r) (2 verses)
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, GR77 Paratexts of the Bible (Pinakes), 18050 Vassis ICB 2005, 542: "In imaginem nativitatis Christi"
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