Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17953
(formerly occ/1248)

	+ στίχοι δηλωτικοὶ τοῦ γραφέος τ(ῆς) βίβλου κ(αὶ) τῶν σχολί(ων) αὐτοῦ· τ(ῶν) \| ἔν τι τόποις:-

	Ἔγραψεν ἡ χεὶρ ἰωάννου τὴν βίβλον·
	πτωχοῦ μοναστοῦ τῶ \| μονοτρόπων βίω·
	τὸ φῶς ἀμυδρὸν ὄψεως κεκτημένου, \|
	(καὶ) χεῖρα δυσκίνητον εἰς γραφὴν τρόμω·
	ταύτην ἀνάγκη \| τήν βίβλον γεγραφότος.
	ὡς κωλύμην ἔχοντος ἀμβλυ\|ωπίαν·
	ἔτι τὲ χειρὸς τὸν τρόμον πρὸς τὸ γράφειν· \|
	οὕτως ἔχοντα, τίς ὁ κινήσας βία·
	ἔρως ἰωσὴφ σεβαστοῦ \| βρυεννίου.
	ὅστις ἔνυξε χεῖρα ναρκῶσαν μόλις· \|
	διονύσιον εἰς τὸ γράψαι τὸν μέγαν·
	(καὶ) νοῦν ὅμοιον \| εἰς σχολίων ἐκθέσεις·

Type(s)	[2468] Ἔγραψεν ἡ χεὶρ Ἰωάννου τὴν βίβλον (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th-15th c.
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 376 [14th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 262r
Person(s)	Patron Ioseph Bryennios (14th-15th c.) - PLP: II.3257 Scribe Ioannes (14th-15th c.) - RGK: III.333 - VGH: 209.L - PLP: IV.8564 (monachos)
Palaeographical information	Written continuously.
Contextual information	The subscription continues in prose: προσεθέμην γὰρ (καὶ) αὐτὸς οὐ φι\|λενδεικτῶν. ἀλλὰ τῶ πόθω τἀνδρὸς χαριζόμενος· \| τινὰς ἑρμηνείας ἔν τισι τόποις. αἷς ὁ προστυγχάνων, \| εἰ μ(ὲν) ὠφέλιμον ἐν αὐταῖς εὑρίσκει τίς, τοῦ θ(εο)ῦ λογιζέσθω \| τοῦτο. καὶ τῆς τοῦ ἰωσὴφ χρηστῆς διαθέσεως. καὶ \| θαυμαζέτω πῶς ἀπὸ σαπροῦ δένδρου, καρπὸς καλὸ(ς) γέγον(εν)· \| εἰ δὲ τοὐναντίον ἅπαν, ἀποκλαιέτω τοῦ γεγραφότο(ς) \| τὴν ἄνοιαν. διπλῶς ἁμαρτάνοντος ἐξ ἀβουλίας· \| τῶ τε μὴ νοεῖν (καὶ) τῶ μῆ νοεῖν, ὅτι οὐ νοεῖ· καὶ εὐχέσθω \| διὰ τοῦτο μᾶλλον ὐπὲρ αὐτοῦ· ἵνα δῶ κ(ύριο)ς αὐτῶ σύνεσ(ιν) \| ὥστε συνιέναι καὶ σχολάσαι· καὶ ἑαυτὸν ὡς χρὴ γνῶναι \| μόνον ἄχρι τέλους, ἀμήν +
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes (14th-15th c.) - RGK: III.333 - VGH: 209.L - PLP: IV.8564 (monachos) Ioseph Bryennios (14th-15th c.) - PLP: II.3257 Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Bibliography	Primary R. Devreesse, 1937, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 330-603 (vol. 2), Vatican City: 70
Number of verses	12
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Contributor(s) Sien De Groot, Rachele Ricceri, Floris Bernard, Maria Tomadaki, 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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