Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18799
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	༶ ༶δέσποτα χ(ριστ)ὲ ὁ μέλ\|λων κόσμον κρῖναι: \|
	༶ ἄφεσιν τῶ κτήτορι \| τῆσδε τῆς βίβλου: \|
	༶ νεῖμον ὡς ἀλκὴν ἔχω(ν) \| δραστικοτάτην: \|
	༶ ἰω(άννης) οὗτός γε ὁ σὸς οἱκ(έ)τ(ης) \|
	ἤλπισεν γάρ σοι τῶ λύτη \| τῶν πταισμ(ά)τ(ων):-

Type(s)	[3055] Δέσποτα Χριστὲ ὁ μέλλων κόσμον κρῖναι (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	01/09/962-31/08/963
Manuscript	MESSINA - Biblioteca Universitaria - S. Salv. 133 [01/09/962-31/08/963]
Place in Manuscript	f. 236v
Person(s)	Scribe Daniel (901-950 - 951-1000) - VGH: 100.B - PMBZ: 23551
Palaeographical information	Written in Auszeichnungsmajuskel on the right column of the folio.
Contextual information	The epigram is located at the end of the 'Sermo in Genesim' by John Chrysostom. A simple frame with vegetal motifs at its endings separates it from the main text.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) John Chrysostom (saint)
Bibliography	Primary G. Fraccaroli 1897, Dei codici greci del monastero del SS. Salvatore che si conservano nella biblioteca universitaria di Messina, Studi Italiani di Filologia Classica (SIFC), 5, 487-514: 498 A. Mancini, 1907, Codices graeci monasterii Messanensis S. Salvatoris, Messina: 196 S. Rossi 1904, Catalogo dei codici greci dell'antico Monastero del SS. Salvatore che si conservano nella Biblioteca Universitaria di Messina, Archivio storico messinese, 5(1-2), 127-149: 142
Number of verses	5
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Dimitrios Skrekas, Eleonora Lauro Contributor(s) Sien De Groot, Rachele Ricceri, Raf Praet, 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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