Type 3407
(formerly typ/1545)

Ἔλαβε πρὶν ὁ Ἰσραὴλ καινὰς πλάκας
αἳ πᾶσιν ὑπῆργον νόμος τε καὶ βάσις
λαλοῦντος εὐχαῖς Μωσέως ταῖς κρυφίαις
ὄρους ἄνω Σινᾶ Θεῷ. Θαῦμα ξένον
ὄρει Θαβὼρ καὶ σοῦ σταθέντος νῷ, μέδον
ἐν ᾧ Θεὸς θελήσας ἀστράπτει ξένως
ἐν ᾧ μυήσας, πῶς ἄναρχον ὡράθη
λαμβάνομεν ταύτην βίβλον, ἄλλας πλάκας.
Text source DBBE
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Reader-related epigram
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)
Tag(s) Introduction to the subject
Translation(s) Excepit olim Israel novas tabulas,
Quae lex, basisque fuerunt omnibus,
Loquente Moyse arcanis votis ad Deum
Sina super monte. O novum miraculum!
Monte super Thabor te quoque, Imperator, mente collocato
In quo Deus volens mirabiliter resplendet,
In quo docet, quomodo id, quod caret principio, conspici potuerit,
Nos hunc accipimus librum, alias tabulas.
Language
Latin
Source(s)
A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 349
Bibliography
Number of verses 8
Occurrence(s) [19297] Ἔλαβε πρὶν ὁ ἰσραὴλ καινὰς πλάκας [14th c.]
FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 8, Cod. 8 [14th c.] (f. 379r)
(8 verses)
Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 216: "In Ioann. Cantacuzenum imp."
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