Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17166
(formerly occ/291)

	✣ ἀρχὴν ἁπάντων κ(αὶ) τέλος σε χ(ριστ)έ μου,
	καλῶς γινώσκω(ν) εὐχαριστῶ σοι λόγ(...)
	ὡς συντελεστῆ τῶν καλ(ῶς) πονουμέν(ων)·
	ἀλλ' ὠ τὰ πάντα συμφερόντ(ως) ἰθύνω(ν)·
	ὁ τὸν πόθον δοὺς τῶ καλῶ ἄνακτί σου·
	ὁ κ(αὶ) φυλάττω(ν) δεξιᾶ ζωηφόρω·
	σὺ νεῦσον αὐτοῦ τῇ γαληνῆ καρδία·
	γραφεῖ ταπεινῶ καὶ κατηυτελισμένω,
	βλέπειν προσηνὲς· δυσχερῆ τε τοῦ βίου,
	ἐξευμαρίζειν δεξιᾶ τρισολβίω:–

Type(s)	[6287] Ἀρχὴν ἁπάντων καὶ τέλος σε, Χριστέ μου (10 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	11th c.
Manuscript	SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 347 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 321v
Palaeographical information	Written in liturgical majuscule.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33)
Image source(s)	https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00279381051-ms/?sp=328
Bibliography	Primary V. Beneševič, 1911, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum qui in monasterio Sanctae Catharinae in monte asservantur. Codices manuscripti notabiliores bibliothecae monasterii Sinaitici ejusque metochii Cahirensis, ab archimandrita Porphyrio (Uspenskio) descripti (vol. 1), Saint-Petersburg: 202 J. Noret 1978, Les manuscrits sinaïtiques de Grégoire de Nazianze (1re partie), Byzantion, 48(1), 146-207: 203
Number of verses	10
Acknowledgements	Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis Contributor(s) Nina Sietis The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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