Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18158
(formerly occ/1474)

	+++ ἐγράφει διὰ χειρὸ(ς)· θύτου τλίμονος \|
	δωσείθεου τοῦ ξένου· καρθὺς ἐ\|νόρει·
	μονῆς τοῦ μελιτήνου· εἰς ἐνεσί(ν) \| γε
	τοῦ προωθεῖσα λόγου· άπαντα πιστ(ὸν) \|
	ὡθεῖ πρὸς ὑμνωδίαν· μη μεμπτέ\|ως δὲ
	τοῖς τυχοῦσιν ὁ γράφων \| γράφων φανεῖτω·
	ὁ γράφων \| γράφει πάρα +
	+ σῶτερ φύλαττε δωσί\|θεον σὸν δουλον:~
	εὔχεσθ[ε] (...)\|γινόσκοντες δια τὸν κ(ύριο)ν

Type(s)	[2607] Ἐγράφει διὰ χειρὸς θύτου τλήμονος (9 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1201-1250
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1997 [1201-1250]
Place in Manuscript	f. 178r
Person(s)	Scribe Dositheos (1201-1250 - 1251-1300) - RGK: III.180 - VGH: 112.G (thytes of the Monastery of Sant' Angelo < Miletos < Calabria < Southern Italy < Italy)
Contextual information	The paratext is follwed by a note of possession added by a contemporary hand: "τοῦ κ[υρ]οῦ μ(ι)χ(αηλ) διδασκάλου τοῦ δ[...]".
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1997/367
Bibliography	Primary P. Franchi de' Cavalieri, 1899, Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum Bibliothecae Vaticanae, Brussels: 182 I. Hutter, 2022, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Corpus der Italogriechischen dekorierten Handschriften der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (vol. 6.2), Stuttgart: 820
Number of verses	9
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Eleonora Lauro Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, Rachele Ricceri, Cristina Cocola, Eleonora Lauro The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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