Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19704
(formerly occ/3246)

	εἰς τ(ὸν) ἅγι(ον) ἰω(άννην) τὸν ἀπόστολον:

	Βροντὴς γόνον σε χ(ριστό)ς εἰκότως ἔφη:
	ὡς τὴν ἄ\|ναρχον π(ατ)ρ(ο)ς ἐξ αναιτίου:
	γέννησιν αὐτοῦ σοῖς \| θεοφθόγγοις λόγοις:
	μέγιστα βροντήσαντα τῆ \| κτίσει πάση:
	εὐαγγελιστὰ παμμάκαρ καὶ παρ\|θένε:
	φωστὴρ ἰωάννη τε τῶν ἀποστόλων: \|
	(καὶ) πλεῖον αὐτῶν κ(υρί)ω πεφιλμένε:
	ἀλλ’ ὡς πρὸ(ς) \| αὐτὸν νῦν ἔχων παρρησίαν,:
	ἄνωθεν αὐτοῦ \| τὴν λύσι τῶν πταισμάτων:
	ἐμοὶ δοθῆναι τῶ \| πόθω κεκτημέ(νε):
	τὴν παντὸς ὄλβου, τῆνδε \| τιμιωτέραν:
	τῶν σῶν φαινῶν δογμάτων \| θείαν βίβλον:

Type(s)	[1885] Βροντῆς γόνον σε Χριστὸς εἰκότως ἔφη (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	OXFORD - Christ Church College 28 [1351-1400]
Place in Manuscript	f. 157r
Person(s)	Scribe Gregorios (1351-1400) - RGK: I.87 - VGH: 96.F
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram accompanies a miniature of John the Evangelist on f. 157v and precedes the Gospel of John.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Comment	A color image is available in Rhoby (2018: 673).
Image source(s)	http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/modules/papyri/?zoom=29&left=2&top=-56&site=INTF&image=30512/0/3210/10/1622
Bibliography	Primary K. Bentein, F. Bernard 2011, A Cycle of Book Epigrams in Honour of the Four Evangelists., Scriptorium, 65, 237-249: 245 W. Hörandner 2000, Randbemerkungen zum Thema Epigramme und Kunstwerke, in C. Scholz, G. Makris (eds.), Polypleuros Nous. Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag, München, 69-82: 79 G. Kitchin, 1867, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum qui in Bibliotheca Aedis Christi apud Oxonienses adservantur, Oxford: 15 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 321-323
Number of verses	12
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Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung'. Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Ilse De Vos The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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