Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5706
(formerly typ/3740)

	Γυμνὸν τὸν Ἰὼβ σάρκας ἐκτετηκότα{ς}
	ἔδειξεν ἡμῖν ὁ γραφεὺς ἕλκους πλέων·
	οἶκτον γὰρ ἔσχεν οὐδαμῶς πολυστόνου
	ἀνδρός, πόνους δ᾽ ὕφηνε κἀν ταῖς εἰκόσι.

Text source	A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 491
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Job
Tag(s)	Description of an image Miniature Reference to content of the book
Translation(s)	The painter has shown us Job naked, full of bruises, his flesh wasted away, for he had no pity whatever of the man of many sorrows and injected his pain even into pictures. 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: 75 Nackt mit abgezehrtem Fleisch zeigte Hiob uns der Maler, voller Geschwüre. Denn er hatte keineswegs Mitleid mit dem viel klagenden Mann, sondern wob (dessen) Plagen auch in die Bilder ein. Language German Source(s) A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 491
Bibliography	Primary W. Hörandner 1991, Zur kommunikativen Funktion byzantinischer Gedichte, in Résumés de communications du XVIIIe Congrès International des Études Byzantines (Moscou, 8-15 août 1991) (vol. 1), Moskau, 415-432: 420 M. Lauxtermann, 2003, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 1), Vienna: 194 H. Maguire 1977, The depiction of Sorrow in Middle Byzantine Art, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 31, 123-174: 137-138 C. Mango 2011, The Epigrams, in P. Canart (ed.), La Bible du Patrice Léon. Codex Reginensis Graecus 1, Città del Vaticano, 59-79: 75 T. Mathews 1977, The Epigrams of Leo Sacellarios and an Exegetical Approach to the Miniatures of Vat. Reg. Gr. 1, Orientalia Christiana periodica, 43(1), 94-134: 132-133
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[22987] γυμνὸν τὸν ἰὼβ σαρκας εκτετηκότας [926-975] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Reg. gr. 1 [926-975] (f. 461v) (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	BEiÜ IV, VAT102 Vassis ICB 2005, 126: "Leo Sacellarius*, In Iobum"
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