Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5695
(formerly typ/3736)

	Ἐξ ὀσφύος μου χριστὸς, ἐκ τῆς παρθένου -
	σκίρτησον, ὦ παῖ, τῆς ἐμῆς κληρουχίας,
	τὸ στέμμα καλλίνικον ἔνδοξον φέρων.
	γήθου, Ἰεσσαί, τὸν ἀπόγονον σκόπει,
	σοφὸν γεοῦχον ἐκπρεπῶς τῇ ταινίᾳ,
	ᾗ τοῦτον ἔνθεν ὁ βλέπων καταστέφει.

Text source	A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 486-487
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	David Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Solomon
Tag(s)	Description of an image Miniature Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	From my loins [shall come] Christ through the Virgin. Leap with joy, O son, who bear the victorious [and] glorious crown of my inheritance. Rejoice, Jesse, behold your descendant, the wise ruler of the earth, whom the seer is here conspicuously crowning with the diadem. Language English Source(s) C. Mango 2011, The Epigrams, in P. Canart (ed.), La Bible du Patrice Léon. Codex Reginensis Graecus 1, Città del Vaticano, 59-79: 72 Aus meinen Lenden (wird) der Gesalbte, aus der Jungfrau (hervorgehen) – frohlocke, o Kind, über mein Erbe, indem du die ruhmvolle Siegeskrone trägst. Freue dich, Jesse, blicke auf deinen Nachkommen, den weisen Landesherrn, hervorragend mit dem Diadem (geschmückt), mit dem hier diesen der Seher krönt. Language German Source(s) A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 487
Bibliography	Primary C. Mango 2011, The Epigrams, in P. Canart (ed.), La Bible du Patrice Léon. Codex Reginensis Graecus 1, Città del Vaticano, 59-79: 72 T. Mathews 1977, The Epigrams of Leo Sacellarios and an Exegetical Approach to the Miniatures of Vat. Reg. Gr. 1, Orientalia Christiana periodica, 43, 94-134: 130-131 C. Walter 1975, Raising on a Shield in Byzantine Iconography, Revue des Études Byzantines, 33, 133-175: 144
Number of verses	6
Occurrence(s)	[22982] ἐξ ὀσφύος μου χ(ριστο)ς ἐκ τῆς παρθένου [926-975] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Reg. gr. 1 [926-975] (f. 281r) (6 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Lotte van Olmen The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	BEiÜ IV, VAT98 Vassis ICB 2005, 241: "Leo Sacellarius*, In coronationem Salomonis e Davide"
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