Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3794
(formerly typ/1887)

	Τὴν χρυσοτευκτόστικτον ἀργυφῆ βίβλον,
	ἣν ἐκρότησε τοῦ Θεοῦ τελῶν στόμα
	τῶν ποιμενάρχων Γρηγόριος ἀκρότης,
	τεύξας μοναστὴς Ἰωσὴφ ἀρχηγέτης
	μονῆς μοναστῶν Παντοκράτορος λόγου,
	τῆς Παντανάσσης τῇ μονῇ δῶρον νέμει
	εἰς λύτρον εἰς κάθαρσιν ἀγνοημάτων.

Text source	D. Harlfinger, D. Reinsch, J. Sonderkamp, G. Prato, 1983, Specimina Sinaitica. Die datierten griechischen Handschriften des Katharinen-Klosters auf dem Berge Sinai, 9. bis 12. Jahrhundert, Berlin: 46
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Gregorios of Nazianzos < Cappadocia (329 - 25/01/390) - PBW: Gregorios/128/
Tag(s)	Beauty of the book Dedication Entreaty for first person Spiritual value of the book
Translation(s)	This wrought-in-gold, silver-shining book, which Gregory [of Nazianzos] the highest of the people-shepherds bringing to completion hammered out, having produced/built [this book] the monk Joseph, leader of the monks of the monastery of the Logos Rantokrator, allots as gift to the monastery of the [Theotokos] Pantanassa for the cleansing in the absolution of sins. Language English Source(s) B. Pentcheva 2004, Visual Textuality: The "Logos" as Pregnant Body and Building, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 45, 225-238: 228 The monk Joseph, leader of the monastery of the Pantocrator-Logos, who made this book glittering with silver-whiteness, dappled with gold, which Gregory the highest of the people-shepherds, being the mouthpiece of God, composed, presents it as a present to the Monastery of the Pantanassa for the cleansing of his sins. Language English Source(s) K. Weitzmann, G. Galavaris, 1990, The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts. From the Ninth to the Twelfth Century (vol. 1), Princeton: 140
Comment	Text of Harlfinger, Reinsch, Sonderkamp & Prato (1983: 46) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography	Primary B. Atsalos 2000, Termes byzantins relatifs à la décoration des manuscrits grecs, in G. Prato (ed.), I manoscritti greci tra riflessione e dibattito. Atti del V Colloquio Internazionale di Paleografia Greca Cremona, 4 - 10 ottobre 1998 (vol. 2), Firenze, 445-511: 466 V. Gardthausen, 1886, Catalogus codicum graecorum sinaiticorum, Oxford: 72 B. Pentcheva 2004, Visual Textuality: The "Logos" as Pregnant Body and Building, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 45, 225-238: 228, n. 10 K. Weitzmann, G. Galavaris, 1990, The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts. From the Ninth to the Twelfth Century (vol. 1), Princeton: 140
Number of verses	7
Occurrence(s)	[19714] τ(ὴν) χρυσοτευκτόστικτον \| ἀργυφῆ βίβλον [1136-1155] SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 339 [1136-1155] (f. 437v) (7 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Lotte van Olmen, 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, 738: "Librarii subscr."
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