Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

This is a test environment.

Type 2340
(formerly typ/407)

	Νέαν Ἐδὲμ νόμιζε τήνδε τὴν βίβλον
	μερισμὸν εἰς τέσσαρας ἀρχὰς λαμβάνειν
	εὐαγγελιστῶν τοὺς θεοπνεύστους λόγους,
	ἐξ ἧς ποταμὸς γνώσεως εἷς ἐκρέων·
	τοῦ πνεύματος γάρ ἐστιν ἡ χάρις μία.
	Πρῶτος ποταμῶν Ἰωάννης πρόθεοι,
	δευτέρᾳ τάξει δὲ Ματθαῖος ῥέων,
	ῥεῖθρα πάλιν δε τρίτος ἐκβλύζει Μάρκος,
	Λουκᾶς τέταρτος πηγὰς ἐνθέους φέρει,
	οἱ πᾶσαν ἀρδέυουσι τὴν οἰκουμένην·
	τοίνυν ὕδωρ ἄντλησον ἅπας πλουσίως
	ἀφθαρσίας πίδακος ἐξ ἀειρρύτου.

Text source	DBBE (based on occurrence νέαν ἐδεμ νόμιζε τήνδε τ(ήν) βίβλον)
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Four Evangelists John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Luke (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Mark (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Spiritual value of the book
Bibliography	Primary A. Bandini, 1764, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Mediceae Laurentianae (vol. 1), Florence: 150 P. Canart, 1970, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 1745-1962. Codicum enarrationes (vol. 7.1), Vatican City: 45 R. Devreesse, 1950, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 604-866 (vol. 3), Vatican City: 69
Number of verses	12
Occurrence(s)	[19189] Νέαν Ἐδεμ νόμιζε τήνδε τήν βίβλον [14th c.] FLORENCE - Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (BML) - Plut. 6, Cod. 26 [14th c.] (f. 357v) (5 verses) [32932] νέαν \| ἐδὲμ \| νόμι\|ζε τήν\|δε τ(ὴν) \| βίβλον [1306] SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 302 [1306] (f. 2r) (5 verses) [17794] νέαν ἐδὲμ νόμιζε τήνδε τήν βίβλον [14th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 647 [14th c.] (f. 155r) (5 verses) [17845] νέαν ἐδεμ νόμιζε τήνδε τ(ήν) βίβλον [15th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1753 [15th c.] (f. 452r) (12 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 482: "In evangelium"
Permalink	http://dev.dbbe.ugent.be/types/2340

Last modified: 2026-01-19.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.