Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6825
(formerly typ/4720)

	Ἀνθρωπομόρφῳ σχήματι περιγράφεις
	τὴν τοῦ λόγου σάρκωσιν ἀληθεστάτην
	καὶ τὴν θέωσιν τὴν θεαρχικωτάτην,
	Ματθαῖε, τῷ σῷ τῆς λογικῆς οὐσίας.

Text source	H. von Soden, 1902, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. Untersuchungen. Die Textzeuge (vol. 1.1), Berlin: 382
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Tag(s)	Address to the author Praise of the author Reference to content of the book Spiritual value of the book
Translation(s)	Since you do not possess the fleshless nature of angels you bear the form of a fleshly evangelist, not because the angels have something higher, but because you write for us the incarnate Word. Language English Source(s) H. Maguire, 1996, The Icons of Their Bodies: Saints and Their Images in Byzantium, Princeton: 85
Comment	Text of von Soden (1902: 382) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography	Secondary H. Maguire, 1996, The Icons of Their Bodies: Saints and Their Images in Byzantium, Princeton: 85
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[25605] ἀνθρωπομόρφω σχήματι περιγράφεις [1251-1300] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 106 [1251-1300] (f. 193v) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Eleonora Lauro The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 56: "In s. Matthaeum evang."
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Last modified: 2024-11-14.