Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6840
(formerly typ/4742)

	Λεοντόμορφον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου, Μᾶρκε,
	περικαλύψει σῶν ἰχνῶν ἐνδεικνύει
	τὸ κρυπτότατον τοῦ θεανθρώπου λόγου
	καὶ βασιλικὸν τοῦ βροτησίου γένους.

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)	Mark (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)	Your lion-shaped face, Mark, in the covering of your footsteps, reveals the most hidden part of the human-divine Logos and the royal nature of the mortal race. Language English Source(s) R. Ricceri 2026, Text and Image, Text as Image: The Beauty of the Book in Byzantine Book Epigrams, in M. Cutino, F. Stella (eds.), Versus ad picturas. Text/Image Relation in Greek, Latin and Arabic Poetry, Berlin, 243-263: 257
Comment	Text of von Soden (1902: 382) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography	Primary R. Ricceri 2026, Text and Image, Text as Image: The Beauty of the Book in Byzantine Book Epigrams, in M. Cutino, F. Stella (eds.), Versus ad picturas. Text/Image Relation in Greek, Latin and Arabic Poetry, Berlin, 243-263: 257
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[25647] λεοντόμορφον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου μᾶρκε [1251-1300] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 106 [1251-1300] (f. 193v) (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, 430: "In s. Marcum ev."
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Last modified: 2026-03-25.

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