Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17187
(formerly occ/314)

	Ἡσαὰκ ἄριστε π(ατέ)ρων, πατερ,
	δι\|δασκάλων πρώτιστε τῆσ ὑφηλίου:
	τὸν ἐκ \| πόθου σου τὴν βίβλον καικτιμένον:
	γε\|ῥασιμον κάλλιστον ἐν μονοτρόποισ:
	τῆσ \| κυπρίων καύχημα, τ(ῶν) ἀζυγΐων:
	τὸν \| ἀγχιθυρίζοντα μονῆσ κουντζοῦβε: \|
	ἔμπλησον αὐτὸν, τοὺσ σοὺσ μαργάρ(ους) λόγ(ους), \|
	δίδαξον αὐτὸν, τ(ὴν) ἄσκησιν αἰσίως:
	σὺν \| δοσιθέῳ, τ(ὸν) αὐτοῦ οἰκοτρίβην:
	ἀλλὰ \| πρωπατόνυμε π(ατέ)ρων ταξιάρχα,:
	δείχνεις εὐθυμίοιο, τόνδε τόν πόθον \|
	γράψαντα πίστει τούσδε τ(οὺς) βραχεῖς στίχουσ:

Type(s)	[4098] Ἰσαὰκ ἄριστε πατέρων, πάτερ (12 verses)
Text source	C. Constantinides 1993, Poetic Colophons in Medieval Cypriot Manuscripts, in A. Bryer (ed.), The Sweet Land of Cyprus. papers given at the twenty-fifth jubilee Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1991, Nicosia, 319-380: 323
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	ATHOS - Mone Megistes Lauras Γ 17 (Eustratiades 257) [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 78v
Person(s)	Patron Dositheos (11th c.) (oikotribes) Gerasimos (11th c.) Scribe Euthymios (11th c.) (monachos)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram
Subject(s)	Isaac of Nineveh (7th c.)
Comment	The first and the tenth verse respectively have eleven and fourteen syllables.
Bibliography	Primary C. Constantinides, R. Browning, 1993, Dated Greek Manuscripts from Cyprus to the year 1570, Washington: 35 S. Eustratiades 1917, Ἁγιορειτικῶν κωδίκων σημειώματα, Γρηγόριος ὁ Παλαμᾶς, 1, 49-771: 157 Secondary K. Bentein, F. Bernard, M. De Groote, K. Demoen 2009, Book Epigrams in Honor of the Church Fathers: Some Inedita from the Eleventh Century, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS), 49(2), 281-294: 288 J. Darrouzès 1957, Autres manuscrits originaires de Chypre, Revue des Études Byzantines, 15, 131-168: 139
Number of verses	12
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