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Occurrence 17421
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Ελενη εκ θεου ευρεμα εδοθη

Type(s)	[1936] Ἑλένῃ ἐκ Θεοῦ εὕρεμα ἐδόθη (1 verse)
Text source	E. Mioni, 1965, Catalogo di manoscritti greci esistenti nelle biblioteche italiane (vol. 1), Rome: 204
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1001-1025
Manuscript	MONTE CASSINO - Biblioteca della Badia 431 [991-1000]
Place in Manuscript	f. 78v
Person(s)	Scribe Arsenios (11th c.) (phorologos)
Palaeographical information	Mioni (1965: 203-4): 'Inscriptiones quaedam et litterae maximae rubro colore pictae sunt (...) F. 78v crux in circulo inclusa cum inscriptis verbis ΕΛΕΝΗ ΕΥΡΗΜΑ ΕΚ ΘΕΟΥ ΕΔΟΘΗ'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Helena (saint, mother of Constantine I) (3rd c. - 4th c.) Holy Cross
Bibliography	Primary W. Hörandner 1990, Visuelle Poesie in Byzanz, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB), 40, 1-42: 16-17 W. Hörandner 2009, Weitere Beobachtungen zu byzantinischen Figurengedichten und Tetragrammen, Νέα Ῥώμη, 6, 291-304: 302 Secondary A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 182
Number of verses	1
Related occurrence(s)	[17192] ἐλενη ἐκ θεοῦ ἐυρεμα ἐδόθη [1020] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 11, Cod. 9 [1020] (f. 282r) (1 verse) (1/1) [17422] ἑλένης \| ἐκ θεοῦ \| εὕρεμα \| ἐδόθη [11th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Barb. gr. 462 [11th c.] (f. 277r) (1 verse) (1/1)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Floris Bernard The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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