Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3377
(formerly typ/1515)

	Ἄνθρωπε, συστάληθι πιστεύσας μόνον,
	καὶ μηδὲν ἀμφίβαλλε τὸ πρᾶγμα βλέπων.
	Τὰς γὰρ φύσεις ἤμειψεν ὁ κτίστης Λόγος,
	σαρκὸς μετασχὼν καὶ Θεὸς μείνας πάλιν.

Text source	E. Miller, 1857, Manuelis Philae Carmina (vol. 2), Amsterdam: 348
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Manuel Philes (1275-1345) - PLP: XII.29817
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Church Fathers Gregorios of Nazianzos < Cappadocia (329 - 25/01/390) - PBW: Gregorios/128/ Holy Trinity Theotokos
Tag(s)	(Spiritual) advice to the reader Address to the soul Education Introduction to the subject Reference to content of the book Repentance Spiritual value of the book
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 245 I. Sakkelion, 1890, Πατμιακὴ Βιβλιοθήκη, Athens: 28
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[24428] ἄν(θρωπ)ε συστάληθι πιστεύσας μόν(ον) [August 1326] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 105 [August 1326] (f. 252v) (4 verses) [19261] Ἄν(θρωπ)ε συστάληθι πιστεύσας μόν(ον) [15th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 7, Cod. 12 [15th c.] (f. 205v) (4 verses) [26031] ἄν(θρωπ)ε συστάληθι πιστεύσας μόνον [15th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 554 [13th c.] (f. 60r) (4 verses) [23945] Ἄν(θρωπ)ε συστάληθι πιστεύσας μόνον [1326-1375] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 43 [1326-1375] (f. 38v) (4 verses) [21060] Ἄνθρωπε συστάληθι πιστεύσας μόνον [14th c.] PATMOS - Mone tou Hagiou Ioannou tou Theologou 37 [13th c.] () (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Julián Bértola, Juan Bautista Juan López The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 55: "Manuel Philes, In Greg. Nazianzeni orationem 38 in Theophania"
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