Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3052
(formerly typ/1160)

	Ἰωσὴφ τόν μέγιστον πῶς ἐπαινέσω
	ὡς κατάνυξιν ταύτην τὴν βίβλον λέγει
	συμψάλλων γράφει τὴν τῶν πταιόντων λύσιν,
	ἧσπερ οἱ σωζόμενοι αὐτὴν αἰτοῦσιν
	φωτίζει πάντας ὡς φῶς ὑπάρχων ὅλως.

Title(s)	In Iosephum hymnographum
Text source	A. Mancini, 1907, Codices graeci monasterii Messanensis S. Salvatoris, Messina: 188
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Hymnography Joseph the Hymnographer (9th c.) - PMBZ: 25664: "Personenkennziffer: 23510"
Tag(s)	Acrostic Praise of the author Prayer Repentance
Comment	The epigram is an acrostic: ΙΩΣΗΦ.
Bibliography	Primary S. Rossi 1904, Catalogo dei codici greci dell'antico Monastero del SS. Salvatore che si conservano nella Biblioteca Universitaria di Messina, Archivio storico messinese, 5, 138-158: 134
Number of verses	5
Occurrence(s)	[18794] Ἰωσὴφ τόν μέγιστ<ον> πῶς ἐπαινέσω [12th c.] MESSINA - Biblioteca Universitaria - S. Salv. 121 [12th c.] (f. 217v) (5 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) 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.
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.