Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18534
(formerly occ/1892)

	+ ἡ βίβλο(ς) ἡδε τῶν θεοπνεύστων λόγων:
	λειμὼν πέφυκε ψυχικῶν ἀρωμάτων:
	ταύτην διελθὼν νουνεχῶς, ψυχὴν φίλε
	εὐωδιάσεις πν(εύματο)ς εὐωδία:
	ἡ βίβλο(ς) αὕτη τῶν θ(εο)ῦ προσταγμάτων,
	λύχνος πέφυκε τοῖς ποσὶ καὶ φῶς τρίβοις:
	ταύτην διελθὼν νουνεχῶς, τοὺς σοὺς πόδ(ας)
	κατευθυνεῖς ἄν(θρωπ)ε πρὸς θεί(ας) τρίβους:

Type(s)	[2854] Ἡ βίβλος ἥδε τῶν θεοπνεύστων λόγων (8 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1286
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 641 [1286]
Place in Manuscript	f. 466v
Person(s)	Scribe Gerasimos (13th c.) - RGK: III.87 - VGH: 67.C - PLP: II.3731 (monachos)
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink. 6 τρίβοις eadem manus e τρίβος
Contextual information	The epigram is the last in a series of three on f. 466v. A colophon in prose is written between the second epigram and this one.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Image source(s)	Turyn 1964, plate 172
Bibliography	Primary R. Devreesse, 1950, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 604-866 (vol. 3), Vatican City: 64 F. Euangelatou-Notara, 1984, Συλλογὴ χρονολογημένων σημειωμάτων ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων. 13ος αἰώνας, Athens: 132 R. Meesters 2020, The visual representation of the formulaic colophon verse τῷ συντελεστῇ τῶν καλῶν θεῷ χάρις, in C. Brockmann, D. Harlfinger, D. Deckers, S. Valente (eds.), Griechisch-byzantinische Handschriftenforschung. Traditionen, Entwicklungen, neue Wege (vol. 1), Berlin/Boston, 333-347: 339 A. Turyn, 1964, Codices graeci vaticani saeculis XIII et XIV scripti annorumque notis instructi, Vatican City: 70
Number of verses	8
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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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