Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4099
(formerly typ/2193)

	Ναὶ μαργαρῖται χειλέων σῶν οἱ λόγοι,
	οὐκ αὐχένας κοσμοῦντες, οὐ στέρνων πλάτη,
	μορφὰς δὲ μᾶλλον, Ἰωάννη, τὰς ἔσω·
	ψυχῶν γὰρ εἰσι κόσμος, οὐχὶ σωμάτων.

Title(s)	Εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Ἰωάννην τὸν Χρυσόστομον
Text source	M. De Groote, 2012, Christophori Mitylenaii Versuum Variorum Collectio Cryptensis, Turnhout: 137
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Christophoros of Mytilene < Lesbos < Greece - PBW: Christophoros/13102/
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	John Chrysostom (saint)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Spiritual value of the book
Bibliography	Secondary S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 102, n. 60
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[20205] ναὶ μαργαρίτα χειλέων σῶν οἱ λόγοι [15th c.] BOLOGNA - Biblioteca Universitaria 4238 [15th c.] (f. 120v-121r) (4 verses) [21215] ναὶ μαργαρίτα χειλέ(ων) σ(ῶν) οἱ λόγοι [13th-14th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana L 73 sup. [13th-14th c.] (f. VIIv) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) 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, 479: "In librum s. Ioann. Chrysostomi, qui Margaritae dicitur"
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