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Type 2879
(formerly typ/980)

Ἄλλος μὲν ἄλλο τῷ ναῷ τῳδὶ φέρει,
οὗ ζῶσα κράτος, σοφία, Θεοῦ λόγος,
ποθῶν κακῶν λύτρωσιν εὑρεῖν ἐν κρίσει·
ὁ δ᾽ Ἰωσήφ τὸ θαῦμα τῆς οἰκομένης,
ὁ πατριάρχης τῆσδε τῆς βασιλίδος,
ὁ χρυσοβρύτης ἅμα καὶ πτωχοτρόφος
μηνῶν βίβλους τίθησι πρὸς δυσὶ δέκα.
Text source DBBE
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Patron-related epigram
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) Ioseph I Galesiotes (13th c.) - PLP: IV.9072 (patriarches of Konstantinoupolis < Turkey)
Tag(s)
Comment Papadopoulos-Kerameus (1915: 208): '"στίχοι"'.

Papadopoulos-Kerameus (1915: 208): 'Ὁ λόγος ἐν τῷ ἐπιγράμματι περὶ προσφορᾶς τῷ ναῷ τῆς Ἁγίας Σοφίας μηναίων τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ ὑπὸ τοῦ πατριάρχου Ἰωσὴφ τοῦ ἀπὸ Γαλησίου, γεγραμμένων κατὰ τὴν πρώτην ἀναμφιβόλως μακρὰν αὐτοῦ πατριαρχίαν (26 Δεκ. 1267 - Μαΐου 1275) ὑπὸ τοῦ καλλιγράφου Μανουὴλ ἱερέως Στυλιανοῦ'.
Bibliography

Primary
Number of verses 7
Occurrence(s) [18572] Ἄλλος μὲν ἄλλο τῷ ναῷ τωδὶ φέρει [1251-1275]
ATHENS - Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados - Metochion Pan. Taphou 648 [1251-1275] (f. 116v)
(7 verses)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Julián Bértola, Lev Shadrin

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 33: "De dedicatione Menaeorum ecclesia S. Sophiae ab Iosepho Galesiote patr. CP."
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