Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23934
(formerly occ/7888)

	+ ὁ μάρκος ἰδων \| τὸ σκότος τῆς ἀπάτης· \|
	ὅλην κατασχὸν τὴν βρο\|τῶν σχεδὸν φύσιν·
	τὴν \| προδρομικὴν οὐ παρῆλθε \| (...)χνίαν·
	ἐφ᾽ ἧς τὸ φῶς \| ἔλαμψε τῆς σω\|τηρίας:·

Type(s)	[6184] Ὁ Μάρκος ἰδὼν τὸ σκότος τῆς ἀπάτης (4 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 407 (Vlad. 25) [12th-14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 80r -- (alt.) f. 86r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram is written inside a headpiece preceding the Gospel of Mark and faces a miniature of the evangelist on f. 79v.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	John the Baptist (10 BC-1 BC - 1st c.) Mark (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Comment	Treu (1966a: 259) gives no text but refers to von Soden (1902: 379). A color image is available in Rhoby (2018: 699).
Bibliography	Primary E. Dobrynina, 2014, New Testament with the Psalter Greek Illuminated Manuscript at the State Historical Museum in Moscow Collected articles edited by E. N. Dobrynina, Moscow: 16, 63 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 381-382 Secondary K. Treu, 1966, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR, Berlin: 259
Number of verses	4
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
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Last modified: 2020-02-05.

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