Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4089
(formerly typ/2179)

	Ματθαῖος ἐστὶ μυστικὸς πρῶτος τύπος
	ἐξ εἰκονίζων ἰδέαν ἀνθρωπίνην,
	ἐφ ὧ τὸν ἀνθρώπινον αὐξάνει πλέον
	τοῖς κατὰ Χριστὸν οἰκονομίας λόγον.

Text source	R. Nelson, 1980, The Iconography of Preface and Miniature in the Byzantine Gospel Book, New York: 49
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Tag(s)	Description of an image Miniature Praise of the author
Bibliography
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[24078] Ματθαῖος ἐστὶ μυστι\|κὸς πρῶτο(ς) τύπο(ς) [1201-1250] ATHOS - Mone Stauroniketa 56 [1201-1250] (f. 59v-60r) (4 verses) [20185] Ματθαῖος ἐστὶ μυστικῶς πρῶ\|τος τύπος [11th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 6, Cod. 36 [11th c.] (f. 43r) (4 verses) [20570] Ματθαῖος ἐστὶ μυστικ(ῶς) πρῶ\|τος τύπος [12th c.] JERUSALEM - Patriarchike Bibliotheke - Panaghiou Taphou 47 [12th c.] (f. 36r) (4 verses) [23930] (…)ατθ(...) ἐστι μυστικὸς πρῶτος τύπος [15th c.] MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 400 (Vlad. 17) [12th c.] (f. 2v) (4 verses) [26335] ματθαῖος ἐστὶ, μυστικ(ῶς) \| πρῶτος τύπος [12th c.] OXFORD - Lincoln College 17 [12th c.] (f. 87r) (4 verses)
Related type(s)	[4090] Ἰωάννης τέταρτος αὖθις εἰκόνα (4 verses) (Same cycle) [6179] Λουκᾶς δ' ὁ θεῖος τρίτος ὑπάρχει τύπος (4 verses) (Same cycle) [5190] Ὁ Μάρκος ἐστὶ δεύτερος τύπος πάλιν (4 verses) (Same cycle)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Renaat Meesters, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Paratexts of the Bible (Pinakes), 15888 Vassis ICB 2005, 448: "In s. Matthaeum evang."
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