Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3454
(formerly typ/1585)

	Πρώτου φάους ὢν δεύτερον θεῖον σέλας
	τρίτου φωτὸς φώτιζε τὸν τριττὸν ζόφον
	καὶ τὴν τετρακτὺν τῶν θυρῶν τὴν πεντάδα,
	τὴν μὲν χαλίνου, τὴν δὲ σωφρονῶν δίδου.
	Τῆς ἑξάδος γοῦν τὴν διπλῆν ἀταξιαν
	μερῶν μελῶν τε μὴ δυσέβδομον θέσιν
	πρὸς τάξιν ἰθύνειας ἐν τῷ σῷ σθένει.

Title(s)	Εἰς τὸν ἄγγελον
Text source	E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 426
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Niketas David Paphlagon (9th c. - 10th c.) - PMBZ: 27866: "Personenkennziffer: 25712"
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Translation(s)	In angelum. Primae lucis cum-sis secundum ex-deo jubar, tertio lumine illumina triplices tenebras et tetractyn portarum et pentada, hanc frena, illam, utpote prudens, concede. Hexadis igitur duplicem perturbationem, partium membrorumque ne bis-septimam positionem ad ordinem regas in tuo robore. Language Latin Source(s) E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 426
Comment	The epigram also occurs in the 16th-century manuscript Madrid, BNE 4715 (a. 1552, f. 151r).
Bibliography	Primary E. Miller, 1886, Bibliothèque royale de Madrid. Catalogue des manuscrits grecs (Supplément au catalogue d'Iriarte), Paris: 80 Secondary C. Constantinides, N. Panagiotakis, E. Jeffreys, A. Angelou (eds.), 1996, Philellēn: Studies in Honour of Robert Browning, Venice: 112 Bibliography category to be determined A. Bandini, 1768, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 2), Florence: 78 B. De Montfaucon, 1708, Palaeographia graeca sive de ortu et progressu literarum graecarum, Paris: 509 A. Kominis, 1988, Πατμιακὴ βιβλιοθήκη ἤτοι νέος κατάλογος τῶν χειρογράφων κωδίκων τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Ἁγίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ Θεολόγου, Athens: 162 I. Sakkelion 1887, Ἀνέκδοτα ἱερὰ, Δελτίον τῆς Ἱστορικῆς καὶ Ἐθνολογικῆς Ἑταιρείας τῆς Ἑλλάδος, 2, 584-585: 584-585 E. Stevenson, 1885, Codices manuscripti Palatini Graeci, Rome: 215
Number of verses	7
Occurrence(s)	[19372] πρώτου φά(ους) ὢν δεύτερον θεῖον σέλας [15th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 31, Cod. 3 [1287-1400] (f. 26v) (7 verses) [18257] Πρώτου φάους ὣν δεύτερον θεῖον σέλας [13th c.] PATMOS - Mone tou Hagiou Ioannou tou Theologou 60 [10th c.] (f. 381v) (12 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Delphine Nachtergaele, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Anthologia Graeca Appendix, III.IV.143 Vassis ICB 2005, 653: "Nicetas David Paphlago*, In Michaelem arch. custodem animae"
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