Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2783
(formerly typ/887)

	Ἅιδην νεκρώσας καὶ κενώσας τοὺς τάφους
	προῆλθε Χριστὸς ἐξαναστὰς τοῦ τάφου.

Text source	A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 251-252
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33)
Tag(s)	Death Description of an image Miniature Resurrection
Translation(s)	Hades tötend und die Gräber leerend trat Christus vor, auferstanden aus dem Grab. Language German Source(s) A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 251
Bibliography	Primary R. Nelson, 1978, Text and Image in a Byzantine Gospel Book in Istanbul (Ecumenical Patriarchate, cod. 3), New York: 17, 298 G. Soteriou, 1937, Κειμήλια τοῦ Οἰκουμενικοῦ Πατριαρχείου. Πατριαρχικὸς ναὸς καὶ σκευοφυλάκιον, Athens: 83
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[23615] ἅδην νεκρώσας καὶ κενώσας \| τοὺς τάφους [14th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 937 (olim 735) [14th c.] (f. 18v) (2 verses) [18453] ἅδην νεκρώσας καὶ κενώσας τοὺς τάφ(ους) [12th c.] ISTANBUL - Oikoumenikon Patriarcheion Patriarchikon Skeuofulakion 3 [12th c.] (f. 4v) (2 verses)
Related type(s)	[30530] ᾍδην πατήσας Χριστὸς ἠγέρθη τάφου (2 verses) (Variant (other wordings))
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Identification	BEiÜ IV, GR80 Paratexts of the Bible (Pinakes), 18053 Vassis ICB 2005, 11: "In Christi resurrectionem"
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