Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18444
(formerly occ/1787)

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⁘ τὴν ἀρχικήν τε κ(αὶ) βασιλικωτάτην:
⁘ ἰσχὺν παριστᾶ τοῦ θ(εο)ῦ καὶ δεσπότου:
Type(s) [2768] Τὴν ἀρχικήν τε καὶ βασιλικωτάτην (2 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 12th c.
Manuscript ISTANBUL - Oikoumenikon Patriarcheion Patriarchikon Skeuofulakion 3 [12th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 18r
Palaeographical information Written in alexandrinische Auszeichnungsmajuskel.
Contextual information The epigram accompanies a miniature of a lion, carrying a book. The lion is usually a symbol associated with Mark the Evangelist. However, in this manuscript the epigram precedes the Gospel of Matthew.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)
Subject(s) Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s) Soteriou1937, plate 48
Bibliography

Primary

Secondary

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: 256
Number of verses 2
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Delphine Nachtergaele
Transcriber(s)
Rachele Ricceri
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri

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