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Type 3669
(formerly typ/1773)

	Ἄλλοι μὲν ἄλλως τῇ πανολβίῳ φύσει
	σπένδουν ψυχῆς τὸ δῶρον ἐμφρόνῳ σχέσει,
	ἐγὼ δὲ λοιπὸν ἐσθλὸν εὐτελὲς θύω
	ἐκ πίστεως πλὴν τήνδε τὴν βίβλον Θεῷ
	σὺν τῇ τεκούσῃ μητρὶ καὶ Θεητόκῳ
	πρέσβεις παλαιᾶς καὶ νέας τοὺς προκρίτους
	εἰς ἀντάμειψιν τῶν ἑμῶν ἐγκλημάτων.

Text source	A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 476-477
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Patron-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Leon Sakellarios (10th c.) - PMBZ: 26573: "Personenkennziffer: 24419" Theotokos
Tag(s)	Completion of the book Dedication Description of an image Miniature
Translation(s)	Other men make different gifts from their soul to the all-glorious Nature through wise love. As for me, I am making a lowly [but] noble sacrifice, yet with [all] my faith, unto God and the Mother who bore Him, the Theotokos, namely this book [containing] the pre-eminent advocates of the Old and New [Testaments] for the remission of my transgressions. Language English Source(s) C. Mango 2011, The Epigrams, in P. Canart (ed.), La Bible du Patrice Léon. Codex Reginensis Graecus 1, Città del Vaticano, 59-79: 65 Andere spenden auf andere Weise der überaus seligen Natur die Gabe der Seele aus geistiger Liebe, ich aber spende nun <etwas> Gutes <und> Schlichtes doch im Glauben dieses Buch Gott zusammen mit der Mutter, die ihn geboren und Gottesgebärerin, die auserlesenen Boten des alten und neuen <Testaments> als Entschädigung für meine Vergehen. Language German Source(s) A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 477
Bibliography	Primary M. Lauxtermann, 2003, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 1), Vienna: 193 C. Mango 2011, The Epigrams, in P. Canart (ed.), La Bible du Patrice Léon. Codex Reginensis Graecus 1, Città del Vaticano, 59-79: 65 T. Mathews 1977, The Epigrams of Leo Sacellarios and an Exegetical Approach to the Miniatures of Vat. Reg. Gr. 1, Orientalia Christiana periodica, 43, 94-134: 126 I. Spatharakis, 1976, The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Leiden: 10
Number of verses	7
Occurrence(s)	[19306] ἄλλοι μὲν ἄλλως τῆ πανολβίω φύσει [926-975] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Reg. gr. 1 [926-975] (f. 2v) (7 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Cristina Cocola, Kristoffel Demoen, Julián Bértola, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	BEiÜ IV, VAT89 Vassis ICB 2005, 32: "Leo Sacellarius*, In Deiparam et Christum biblum accipientes"
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