Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3106
(formerly typ/1255)

	Τῶν τοῦ μεγίστου Διονυσίου λόγων,
	οὐκ ἄν τις εὕροι βίβλον ἀκριβεστέραν
	οὐκοῦν δικαίως οὐδὲ κομπωδεστέραν
	εἰ ταῦτα κόμπος, ἄργυρος καὶ πορφύρα.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author
Translation(s)	Трактатов Дионисия великого едва ли кто точнее сыщет рукопись, конечно нет, ни более роскошную, коль это роскошь - серебро на пурпуре. Language Russian Source(s) G. Prochorov 1983, Греческие эпиграммы в славянском переводе XIV в. и в русской рукописной традиции, in M. Alekseev, N. Baskakov, O. Tvorogov (eds.), Духовная культура славянских народов: литература, фольклор, история, Leningrad, 88-96: 89
Comment	This epigram was translated into Slavonic in 1371 by Isaiah, former abbot of the Panteleemon Monastery of Athos (cf. Parpulov 2022: 339).
Bibliography	Primary G. Parpulov 2022, Byzantine Book Epigrams in Medieval Slavonic Manuscripts, Palaeoslavica, 30(1-2), 335-344: 339 Bibliography category to be determined E. Mioni, 1992, Catalogus codicum Graecorum Bibliothecae Nationalis Neapolitanae (vol. 1.1), Rome: 103 G. Pierleoni, 1962, Catalogus codicum Graecorum Bibliothecae Nationalis Neapolitanae (vol. 1), Roma: 136 C. Samberger, 1968, Catalogi codicum graecorum qui in minoribus bibliothecis Italicis asservantur (vol. 2), Leipzig: 100
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[30207] Τῶν τοῦ μεγίστου διονυσίου λόγων [1200-1500] ATHOS - Mone Dionysiou 261 [13th c.] (f. 13v) (4 verses) [34286] Τῶν τοῦ μεγίστου Διονυσίου λόγων [14th c.] ATHOS - Mone Hagiou Panteleemonos 126 [14th c.] (f. 5r) (4 verses) [18944] τῶν τοῦ μεγίστου διονυσίου λόγ(ων) [14th-15th c.] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. II B 5 [1326-1375] (f. 8r) (4 verses) [23906] τῶν τοῦ μεγίστου διονυσίου λόγων [14th c.] ROME - Biblioteca Angelica gr. 43 (B.3.8) [14th c.] (f. 18v) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 816: "In Dionysium Areopagitam"
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