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Here's the page where the Oikonomos is initially duped by Simonides, in the "UH AHHH" stage (i.e. 1849).
Ο ΕΡΜΗΝΕΥΤΩΝ ΤΗΣ ΠΑΛΑΙΑΣΘΕΙΑΣ ΓΡΑΦΗΣ
ΒΙΒΛΙΑ Δ.
ΣΥΝΤΑΧΘΕΝΤΑ ΥΠΟ
τοῦ Πρεσβυτέρου· καὶΟἰκονόμου τοῦ Οἰκουμενικοῦ Πατριαρχικοῦ Θρόνου,
ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΕΞΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΩΝ.
ΤΟΜΟΣ ΤΕΤΑΡΤΟΣ.
1.
ΑΘΗΝΗΣΙ.
ΤΥΠΟΙΣ Φ. ΚΑΡΑΜΠΙΝΟΥΚΑΙ Κ. ΒΑΦΑ.
ὁδῷ Αγίου Μάρκου.
ΛΩΜΘ [=1849].
Page 218-219
(Footnote A)
[Page 218] ἡ ὀρθόδοξοςΕκκλησία πρεσβεύει ἀνέκαθεν. Τοῦτοκαὶ ἐμπράκτως ἀπὸ τοῦ γ, αἰῶνος καὶἐφεξῆς κατ ̓ ἔτος διακηρύττει, διὰτῆς ἑορτῆς τῶν ἁγίων ἑπτὰ παίδωντῶν Μακκαβαίων καὶ τῆς μητρὸς αὐτῶνΣολομονῆς καὶ τοῦ διδασκάλου Ελεαζάρου,ἣν κατὰ τὴν πρώτην Αὐγούστου ἐπιτελεῖ,τιμῶσα στοὺς καὶ πρὸ τῶν Χριςοῦ παθῶνματυμήσαντας» (Γρηγόρ. Ναζ. αὐτόθ.)· ὧνκαὶ τὰς εἰκόνας· ὅπως δεῖ ζωγραφεῖν,διδάσκει ἡ περὶ τῆς ἱερᾶς εἰκονογραφίαςἀρχαία χειρόγραφος ἑρμηνεία
(α).Τὴν δὲ ἑορτὴν καὶ ἡ Δυτική Εκκλησία,
[Page 219] ὡς τὸ πάλαι, καὶ νῦνἑορτάζει...”
[Footnote A]: (α) Τοιοῦτο χειρόγραφον ἀρχαῖον σῴζεται, συγγραφὲν εἰς τὴν χυδαίαν διάλεκτον ὑπὸ Διονυσίου τοῦ Ἱερομονάχου καὶ ζωγράφου, τοῦ ἐκ Φουρνᾶ τῶν Ἀγράφων (ἐν ἄθωνι, ἔτει μυνη, 1458), Ερμηνεία τῶν ζωγράφων, ὡς πρὸς τὴν ἐκκλησιαστικὴν ζωγραφίαν, ἐπι γεγραμμένον. ἐν τούτῳ διδάσκει ὁ ἱερογράφος οὗτος, ὅπως δεῖζωγραφεῖν τὰς τῶν ἁγίων μορφὰς, κατὰτὴν πάτριον παράδοσιν, καὶ τὰς ὑποτυπώσεις τῶν ἀρχαιοτάτων ζωγράφων, ἐν οἷς μάλιστα διέπρεψε καὶ ὁδιασημότατος ἐπὶ τῇ ἐκκλησιαστική ζωγραφία Μανουήλ. ὁ
Πανσέληνος, οὗτινος εἰκονογραφίαι ἐν τοῖς τοίχοιςτοῦ ναοῦ διατηροῦνται ἔντε τῷ ἁγιωνύμῳὄρει τοῦ Ἄθωνος, καὶ ἐν τῷ κατὰ Μακεδονίαν μοναστηρίῳ τῆς Κοσσιφοινίσσης,καὶ εἴπου ἄλλοθι· μνημονεύεται δὲκαὶ βιβλίον αὐτοῦ περὶ ζωγραφίας, ἐνᾧ διελάμβανεν, ὅπως εἰκονιστέον τοὺς χαρακτῆρας τῶν ἁγίων (τὸ δὲ τοῦ Διονυσίου χειρόγραφον διαλαμβάνει καὶ περὶ
Ηλιοτυπίας, ὡς ὀνομάζει ζωγραφικώτατατὸ εἶδος τῆς εἰκονογραφίας, τὸ καθ ̓ἡμᾶς παρὰ τοῖς Γάλλοις ἀνακαινισθὲν,ὑπὸ τὸ ὄνομα
Δαγυεῤῥοτυπία, Daguerreotype, ὡς ἐκ τοῦ εὑρέτου Δαγυέρῥου).Εκ τοιούτων ἀρχαίων ἱερογραφικῶνὑποτυπώσεων ἠρανίσθη πάντως καὶ ὁἀνωτέρω Διονύσιος τὸ περὶ οὗ ὁ λόγοςχειρόγραφον. Τοῦτο δὲ καὶ Γαλλιστίμεταφρασθὲν ἐξέδωκεν ὁ Γάλλος Διδρών (
Didron, Manuel d'Iconographie Chrétienne Grecque et Latine. Paris,1845), μετὰ προλόγου εἰσαγωγικοῦ, ἐν ᾧθεωρεῖ τὸ βιβλίον πληρέστατον σύστηματῆς Ἐκκλησιαστικῆς εἰκονογραφίας·καὶ τὴν καθ ̓ ἡμᾶς ἱερὰν ζωγραφίαν(ἢ ̔Αγιογραφίαν) θαυμάζεει, θεωρήσαςτὰς πολλαχοῦ τῆς Ἑλλάδος σωζομέναςἀρχαίας εἰκόνας, ἐν αἷς πανταχοῦ αἱαὐταὶ τῶν ἁν γίων μορφαὶ κατὰ διαφόρουςτόπους καὶ χρόνους ἀπαραλλάκτωςζωγραφοῦνται (τὸ σεμνὸν καὶ ἱεροπρεπὲςτῆς καθ' ἡμᾶς Ἐκκλησιαστικῆς ζωγραφίαςκαὶ ὁ κλεινὸς Μουστοξύδης διέκρινενἐν τῷ φερωνύμῳ Ελληνομνήμονες σελ. 40, 278. ἐν δὲ τῇ βασιλευούση πόλει τοῦ Μονάχου πρό τινων ἐνιαυτῶν καὶ ναὸςὁλόκληρος έζωγραφήθη θαυμαστῶς κατὰτὴν Βυζαντινὴν ζωγραφίαν). Καὶ αὐτοῦδὲ τοῦ πρωτοτύπου χειρογράφου τοῦΔιονυσίου ἐλπίζεται ἡ ἔκδοσις. ἐντούτῳ τοίνυν μεταξὺ τῶν ἄλλων εἰκόνωντῆς Παλαιᾶς Γραφῆς διδάσκονται οἱἁγιογράφοι
[Page 219] καὶ ὅπως ζωγραφητέοντοὺς ἁγίους ἑπτὰ παῖδας τοὺςΜακκαβαίους, καὶ τὸν Τωβίτ, καὶ τὴνἰουδείθ.
Google Translate slightly modified (25/02/25)
[Page 218] the Orthodox Church has always advocated. It has been proclaiming this in practice since the third century and seven years, through the feast of the seven holy children of the Maccabees and their mother Solomon and the teacher Eleazar, which it celebrates on the first of August, in honour of those who martyred before the Passion of Christ" (Gregory. Nazz. autograph); of which the ancient manuscript interpretation of sacred iconography
(a) teaches that the icons were painted as he saw them. And the Western Church also celebrates the feast,
[Page 219] as it did in the past, and still celebrates it today..."
[Footnote A]: (a) Such an ancient
[= corrupted and forged by Simonides] manuscript survives, written in the vulgar dialect by
Dionysius the Hieromonk and painter, of Fourna of the Agrafa (in [Mt.] Athos, celebrated in 1458), entitled
"Interpretation of the Painters, as to the Ecclesiastical Painting", is inscribed. In this, this hierographer teaches how to paint the figures of the saints, according to the native tradition, and the imitations of the most ancient painters, in which even the most famous in ecclesiastical painting,
Manuel, excelled. The Panselinos, whose iconography on the walls of the temple is preserved both on the holy Mount Athos, and in the monastery of Kossifonissa in Macedonia, and elsewhere; and his book on painting is also mentioned, in which he discussed how to depict the characters of the saints (and Dionysius' manuscript also discusses
Heliotype, as he most picturesquely names the type of iconography, which, according to us, was renewed by the French, under the name
Daguerreotype, as from the found Daguerreo). However, the aforementioned Dionysius also collected the manuscript in question from such ancient hagiographers copies. This was also translated into French by the Frenchman
Didron (Didron, Manuel d'Iconographie Chrétienne Grecque et Latine. Paris, 1845), with an introductory preface, in which he considers the book to be the most complete system of Ecclesiastical iconography; and he admires what we call sacred painting (or "Hagiography"), considering the many ancient icons preserved in Greece, in which everywhere these figures of the saints are invariably painted in various places and times (the modest and sacred aspect of what we call Ecclesiastical painting was also distinguished by the famous Greek Memoirs pp. 40, 278. and in the reigning city of Munich a few years ago, an entire church was miraculously painted according to Byzantine painting).
And the publication of this original manuscript of Dionysius is hoped for. In this, among the other icons of the Old Testament, the hagiographers are taught
[Page 219] and how to paint the holy seven children of the Maccabees, and Tobit, and Judith."
Vol 4
https://books.google.com.cy/books?id=xJtAAAAAcAAJ
Apparently, in 1850, the Oikonomos found out that Simonides had deceived him.
p. 190
Alexandru Mihaila
