Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17648
(formerly occ/888)

	Λέξεις βίβλου κρατιστῆς· εἶς ὁρᾶς \| πανολβίου,
	ἄνακτος ἡμῶν ἰ(ησο)ῦ \| μακαρτάτου +
	τέτρωρον οὖσ(αν) \| εὐάγγελον καλουμένην,
	ἀν\|δρῶν μεγίστων εὐκλεἐστάτους \| λόγους +
	ματθαίου κ(αὶ) ἰω(άνν)ου σοφοῦ \| μάλα,
	μάρκου τὲ σεμνοῦ κ(αὶ) λου\|κὰ λόγους κλητοῦς,
	χαίροις ὁ κτή\|τορ τῆς βίβλου συν δ' αὖ θ(εὸ)ς λό\|γος +
	ἄπαντα πιστῶν πρὸς τὸ \| ζῆν δωρήσεται,
	τιμὴν καὶ δό\|ξαν εἰς τοῦς αἰώνων χρόνους +
	ἀφθάρτων \| πάντων κ(αὶ) πὰραδεῖσσου τρυφῆς ἀξιωθῶμ(εν)

Type(s)	[2218] Λέξεις βίβλου κρατιστῆς εἰσορᾷς πανολβίου (10 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1460
Manuscript	CAMBRIDGE - Trinity College - O 1.66 [1460]
Place in Manuscript	f. 196r
Person(s)	Scribe Theodoros of Konstantinoupolis < Turkey (15th c.) - RGK: I.134 - VGH: 140.D - PLP: IV.7414 (thytes)
Contextual information	The epigram is followed by a prose colophon on f. 196v, containing the name of the scribe and the date.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) John (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Luke (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Mark (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.)
Image source(s)	https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.1.66/UV#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=426&r=0&xywh=-2644%2C-1%2C7958%2C3881
Bibliography	Primary M. James, 1902, The Western Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. A Descriptive Catalogue (vol. 3), Cambridge: 69
Number of verses	10
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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