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Type 1863
(formerly typ/6)

	Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας,
	ἀνδράσι ἀνέφηνας ἰδεῖν νοοσύνθετον ἄστρον.

Title(s)	Ἐπίγραμμα εἰς τὸν μακάριον Διονύσιον, περὶ τῆς οὐρανίας ἱεραρχίας
Text source	S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 62-64
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Subject(s)	Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Spiritual value of the book
Translation(s)	Epigram on the blessed Dionysius, on the work De Caelesti Hierarchia After having reached the many radiant glances of angelic wisdom, You have revealed to the people a star composed by the mind. Language English Source(s) S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 62 'Nachdem du den vielfältigen Glanz der engelsgleichen Weisheit erlangt hast, hast du den Menschen eröffnet, den geistbestimmten Stern zu sehen'. Language German Source(s) A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 333 'Epigramma in beatum Dionysium. De caelesti hierarchia. Angelicae sapientiae radios multos assecutus hominibus exhibuisti conspiciendum mente-compositum astrum'. Language Latin Source(s) E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 359
Comment	Even though this epigram and type 1862 (cf. related types) have an almost identical text, we created two separate types, because "the two types have a different textual transmission as well as a different function within the manuscripts" (De Groot (2021: 64)). The epigram also occurs in the 17th-century manuscript Vat. Urb. gr. 5 (f. 15r).
Bibliography	Primary K. Bentein, F. Bernard, M. De Groote, K. Demoen 2009, Book Epigrams in Honor of the Church Fathers: Some Inedita from the Eleventh Century, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS), 49(2), 281-294: 286 E. Cougny, 1890, Epigrammatum Anthologia Palatina cum Planudeis et Appendice nova epigrammatum veterum ex libris et marmoribus ductorum (vol. 3), Paris: 359 S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 94-95, 102 B. De Montfaucon, 1702, Diarium Italicum, Paris: 363-364 V. Lundström 1900, Ramenta byzantina, Eranos, 4, 134-147: 140-141 J. Migne, 1857, Patrologiae cursus completus. Series graeca (vol. 3), Paris: 116 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 333-334 L. Sternbach 1900, Appendix Christophorea, Eos: Commentarii Societatis Philologae Polonorum, 6, 53-74: 54 display 5 more references (8 in total) hide 5 references (8 in total) Secondary S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 84-85, 91-92, 119
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[17407] (...)ελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [11th c.] ATHENS - Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados - Metochion Pan. Taphou 642 [11th c.] (f. 3r) (2 verses) [27062] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [11th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 157 [10th-11th c.] (f. 5r) (2 verses) [30140] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [14th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 158 [14th c.] (f. 12r) (2 verses) [30144] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κι\|χήσας [11th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 159 [11th c.] (f. 179v) (2 verses) [30154] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [06/03/1389-31/12/1500] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 160 [06/03/1389] (f. 42r) (2 verses) [30160] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [11th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 161 [11th c.] (f. 5r) (2 verses) [30165] ἀγγελικ(ῆς) σοφί(ης) ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [13th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 475 [13th c.] (f. 110v) (2 verses) [30175] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγμ(α)τα πολλὰ κιχήσας [15th c.] ATHOS - Mone Dionysiou 213 [15th c.] (f. 4v) (2 verses) [30211] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύ γματα πολλὰ \| κιχήσας [13th c.] ATHOS - Mone Dionysiou 261 [13th c.] (f. 14r) (2 verses) [30789] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [14th c.] ATHOS - Mone Hagiou Panteleemonos 770 [14th c.] (f. 2r) (2 verses) [26727] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμα\|ρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [851-950] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Conv. Soppr. 202 [851-950] (f. IIv) (2 verses) [19142] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [15th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 5, Cod. 11 [15th c.] (f. 1r) (2 verses) [24716] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἅμα ῥύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [15th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 5, Cod. 11 [15th c.] (f. 3v) (2 verses) [24717] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματ(α) \| πολλὰ κιχήσας [11th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 5, Cod. 13 [11th c.] (f. 7v) (2 verses) [19153] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κι\|χήσας [29/01/1348] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 5, Cod. 26 [29/01/1348] (f. 130v) (2 verses) [19154] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσ(ας) [15th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 5, Cod. 32 [15th c.] (f. 1r) (2 verses) [21958] ἀγγελικ(ῆς) σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [15th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 5, Cod. 32 [15th c.] (f. 28v) (2 verses) [30229] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [10th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - San Marco 686 [10th c.] (f. 11r) (2 verses) [20720] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κ(...) [8th-9th c.] JERUSALEM - Patriarchike Bibliotheke - Timiou Staurou 23 [8th-9th c.] (p. 122) (2 verses) [22529] Ἀγγελικ(ῆς) σοφίης ἀμαρύγματ(α) πολλὰ κιχήσ(ας) [971] LONDON - British Library - Add. 18231 [971] (f. 16r) (2 verses) [22582] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [14th c.] LONDON - British Library - Add. 22350 [14th c.] (f. 7r) (2 verses) [19616] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [14th-15th c.] MODENA - Biblioteca Estense Universitaria α. T. 9. 08 (Puntoni 45; olim II B 8) [14th-15th c.] (f. 1v) (2 verses) [23490] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [1496-1505] MUNICH - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - gr. 636 [1496-1505] (f. 4r) (2 verses) [18945] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [14th c.] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. II B 5 [1326-1375] (f. 15r) (2 verses) [20079] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρίγματα πολλὰ \| κιχήσας [14th c.] NELAHOZEVES - Zámek Roudnická Lobkowiczká Knihovna VI Fe 1 [1301-1350] (p. 295-296) (2 verses) [30124] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [11th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Clarke 37 [11th c.] (f. 82r) (2 verses) [19860] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἁμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [11th-15th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Cromwell 13 [951-975] ((unsure) f. 439v) (2 verses) [19737] Ἀγγελικῆς σόφιης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [1496-1505] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - D'Orville 113 [1496-1505] (f. 175r) (2 verses) [17388] Ἁγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [1076-1100] OXFORD - Corpus Christi College 163 [12th c.] (f. 7r) (2 verses) [25109] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [1326-1350] OXFORD - Magdalen College gr. 2 [1326-1350] (f. 7r) (2 verses) [21426] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [1376-1400] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 85 [1376-1400] (f. 11v) (2 verses) [21433] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ \| κιχήσας [12th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 86 [12th c.] (f. 174v) (2 verses) [24707] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [11th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 440 [11th c.] (f. 72r) (2 verses) [25341] Αγγελικης σοφιης ἀμαρυγμα(τα) πολλα κιχησ(ας) [14th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 441 [14th c.] (f. 5v) (2 verses) [25688] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [12th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 442 [12th c.] (f. 8v) (2 verses) [25192] Ἀγγελικ(ῆς) \| σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [1272] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 443 [1272] (f. 3v) (2 verses) [25699] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης, ἀμαρύγμ(α)τ(α) πολλὰ κιχήσας [1348] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 444 [1348] (f. 4v) (2 verses) [25787] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [11th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 934 [11th c.] (f. 134v) (2 verses) [25796] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [11th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 934 [11th c.] (f. 194v) (2 verses) [25815] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμα\|\|ρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [13th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 935 [13th c.] (f. 6v-7r) (2 verses) [27030] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ \| κιχήσας [1301-1350] PARIS - Musée du Louvre MR 416 (Ivoires A53) [1301-1350] (f. 7r) (2 verses) [21748] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [12th c.] ROME - Biblioteca Angelica gr. 37 (B.2.8) [12th c.] (f. 81v) (2 verses) [23907] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [14th c.] ROME - Biblioteca Angelica gr. 43 (B.3.8) [14th c.] (f. 25r) (2 verses) [34074] αγγελικῆς σοφίης ἅμα ῥύγματα πολλὰ κι\|χήσας [15th c.] ROME - Biblioteca Angelica gr. 80 (C.1.11) [15th c.] (f. 64r) (2 verses) [31458] αγγελικῆς σοφίης ἅμα ῥύγματα πολλὰ κι\|χήσας [15th c.] ROME - Biblioteca Angelica gr. 80 (C.1.11) [15th c.] (f. 64r) (2 verses) [24701] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγμ(α)τα πολλὰ κιχήσας [14th c.] ROME - Biblioteca Vallicelliana B 80 (Martini 17) [14th c.] (f. 8v) (2 verses) [23058] ἀγγελικηὶς σοφίηις ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [10th c.] ROME - Biblioteca Vallicelliana E 29 (Martini 69) [10th c.] (f. 69v) (2 verses) [25890] ἁγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [1048] SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 319 [1048] (f. 8r) (2 verses) [25915] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολά κιχήσας [14th c.] SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 322 [14th c.] (f. 4r) (2 verses) [25919] ἀγγελικ(ῆς) σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [14th c.] SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 322 [14th c.] (f. 4v) (2 verses) [21948] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [1367] TURIN - Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria B. VI. 43 (Pasini 369) [1367] () (2 verses) [18042] ἀγγελλικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [1426-1500] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Borg. gr. 22 [15th c.] (f. 4v) (2 verses) [33830] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [16th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Ottob. gr. 176 [16th c.] (f. 146r) (2 verses) [25433] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Palat. gr. 39 [13th-14th c.] (f. 8r) (2 verses) [25481] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ \| κιχήσας [13th-14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Palat. gr. 39 [13th-14th c.] (f. 35v) (2 verses) [25502] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγμ(α)τα πολλὰ κιχήσας [13th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 207 [13th c.] (f. 279r) (2 verses) [17947] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχή\|σας [9th-10th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 370 [9th-10th c.] (f. 3v) (2 verses) [25447] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [11th-12th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 371 [11th-12th c.] (f. 5r) (2 verses) [24493] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα \| πολλὰ κιχήσας [13th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 374 [13th c.] (f. 99v) (2 verses) [18098] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [14th-15th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 376 [14th-15th c.] (f. 106v) (2 verses) [26729] ἀγγελικῆς \| σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ \| κιχήσας [1105] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 504 [1105] (f. 13v) (2 verses) [17879] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσ(ας) [13th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1525 [13th c.] (f. 90r) (2 verses) [25486] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [13th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1525 [13th c.] (f. 129r) (2 verses) [17390] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγμα\|τα πολλὰ κιχήσας [11th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1787 [11th c.] (f. 124v) (2 verses) [16965] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [11th-12th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 2162 [11th-12th c.] (f. 8v) (2 verses) [18028] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρυγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [9th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 2249 [9th c.] (f. 94v) (2 verses) [26515] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [13th c.] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 143 (coll. 392) [13th-14th c.] (f. 127v) (2 verses) [26507] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [1276-1300] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 144 (coll. 531) [1276-1300] (f. 5v) (2 verses) [22300] ἀγγελικ(ῆς) σοφίης ἀμαρύγμ(α)τ(α) πο\|λλὰ κιχήσας [13th c.] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 494 (coll. 331) [13th c.] (f. 59r) (2 verses) [30543] Ἀγγελικ(ῆς) σοφί(ης) ἀμαρύγμ(α)τ(α) πολλὰ κιχήσ(ας) [13th c.] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 494 (coll. 331) [13th c.] (f. IIv) (2 verses) [22332] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσ(ας) [11th c.] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 558 (coll. 789) [11th c.] (f. 7v) (2 verses) [22915] Ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [14th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - suppl. gr. 1 [14th c.] (f. 5r) (2 verses) [22527] ἀγγελικῆς σοφίης· ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας [13th c.] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - theol. gr. 65 [13th c.] (f. 75r) (2 verses) display 70 more occurrences (73 in total) hide 70 occurrences (73 in total)
Related type(s)	[1862] Ἀγγελικῶν γραφίδων ἀμαρύγματα πολλὰ κιχήσας (2 verses) (Variant (other wordings))
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Julián Bértola, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Cristina Cocola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Anthologia Graeca Appendix, III.III.419 BEiÜ IV, IT6 Vassis ICB 2005, 5: "In s. Dionysium (de caelesti hierarchia)"
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