Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5422
(formerly typ/3471)

	Ἡ παμμεγίστη σου ταπείνωσις, πάτερ,
	τὸ δαψιλές τε δάκρυον τῆς καρδίας
	ἀνώτερον θέντα σε τῶν ἐγκοσμίων
	θεωριῶν ἔπλησαν ὑπερκοσμίων·
	τοὺς ἐνθέους οὖν ὃς κακίζει σου λόγους
	κακὸς κακῶς ὄλοιτο σὺν βλασφημίαις.

Title(s)	Ἱεροθέου μοναχοῦ καὶ πρεσβυτέρου μονῆς τῆς Ὡραίας Πηγῆς
Text source	A. Kambylis, 1976, Symeon Neos Theologos, Hymnen, Berlin: 25
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Hierotheos - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: (monachos, presbyteros of the Monastery of Horaia Pege < Bithynia < Asia Minor < Turkey)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Symeon the Theologian (949-1022) - PMBZ: 29643: "Personenkennziffer: 27488" - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP:
Tag(s)	Address to the author Polemic Praise of the author Spiritual value of the book
Comment	This epigram is also preserved in the 16th-century manuscript Vat. gr. 1782 and the 18th-century manuscript Ankara, Türk Tarih Kurumu 18.
Bibliography	Primary J. Migne, 1880, Patrologiae cursus completus. Series graeca (vol. 120), Paris: 307 Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2019, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 2), Vienna: 187, n. 94
Number of verses	6
Occurrence(s)	[32544] ἡ παμμεγίστη σου ταπείνωσις π(ᾶτ)ερ [1391-1400] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Barocci 5 [1391-1400] (f. 165v) (6 verses) [23980] Ἡ παμμεγίστη σὴ ταπείνωσις π(άτ)ερ [14th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - suppl. gr. 103 [14th c.] (f. 14v) (6 verses) [32752] Ἡ παμμεγίστη σὴ ταπείνωσις, πάτερ [14th c.] PATMOS - Mone tou Hagiou Ioannou tou Theologou 427 [14th c.] (f. 101v) (6 verses) [22306] ἡ παμμεγίστη σου ταπείνωσ(ις) π(άτ)ερ [13th c.] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 494 (coll. 331) [13th c.] (f. 266r) (6 verses) [32551] Ἡ παμμεγίστη σὴ ταπείνωσις, πάτερ [14th c.] ZWICKAU - Ratsschulbibliothek Ms. III [14th-15th c.] (f. 7v) (6 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 315: "Hierotheus mon., In laudem Symeonis Novi Theologi"
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