Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2779
(formerly typ/885)

	Ὁ τὸν νόμον δοὺς Χριστὸς ὥσπερ τήν χάριν
	ἤστραψε μορφὴν ἡλίου φωτὸς πλέον.

Text source	A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 254
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33)
Tag(s)	Miniature
Translation(s)	Christus, der das Gesetz gab, wie die Gnade, erstrahlte in seiner Gestalt mehr als das Licht der Sonne. Language German Source(s) A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 254
Bibliography	Primary R. Nelson, 1978, Text and Image in a Byzantine Gospel Book in Istanbul (Ecumenical Patriarchate, cod. 3), New York: 20, 299 G. Soteriou, 1937, Κειμήλια τοῦ Οἰκουμενικοῦ Πατριαρχείου. Πατριαρχικὸς ναὸς καὶ σκευοφυλάκιον, Athens: 82
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[24970] ὁ τὸν νόμον δοὺς χ(ριστὸ)ς∙ ὥσπερ τὴν χάριν [14th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 937 (olim 735) [14th c.] (f. 203r) (2 verses) [18451] ὁ τον νόμον δοὺς χ(ριστὸ)ς ὥσπερ τήν χάριν [12th c.] ISTANBUL - Oikoumenikon Patriarcheion Patriarchikon Skeuofulakion 3 [12th c.] (f. 131r) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	BEiÜ IV, GR84 Paratexts of the Bible (Pinakes) , 18047 Vassis ICB 2005, 558: "In transfigurationem"
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