Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6862
(formerly typ/4763)

	Ματθαῖος μὲν ἔγραψε Χριστοῦ μεροπηΐδα φύτλην·
	ἐκ δ' ἱεροῦ βαπτίσματος ἐς τέλος εἶπεν ὁ Μάρκος·
	Λουκᾶς δ' ἐκ Χριστοῦ πᾶν εἰσόκεν ὑψὀσ' ἀέρθη·
	Ἰωάννης δ' ἀρχὴν ὑπεράρχιον ἀρχιγένεθλον.

Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	Four Evangelists John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Luke (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Mark (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Reference to content of the book
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined DBBE (last accessed: 2025-05-01).
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[25703] ματθαῖος μὲν ἔγραψε χ(ριστο)ῦ μεροπηΐδα φύτλην [12th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 71 [12th c.] (f. 186r) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Information on the type courtesy of ParaTexBib. Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Paratexts of the Bible (Pinakes) , 16012
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Last modified: 2019-09-04.