Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18806
(formerly occ/2198)

	ἕτεροι:·

	ἔσπευσαν ἄλλοι χρυσὸν εὑρεῖν ἐν βίω:·
	ἄλλοι δὲ, γῆν σπεύδουσιν ἢ καὶ μαργάρους:·
	καὶ πάντα πλοῦτον, προ(σ)λαβεῖν ἀπληστία:·
	ὁ δεσπότης δὲ τοῦ παρόντος βιβλίου,
	οὐ μαργαρίτας. οὐ λίθους. οὐ χρυσίον·
	τὴν καλλονήν δε, τῶν λόγων τοῦ χ(ριστο)ῦ μου:·
	σοφῶς ἀνεὑρῶν ἐξ ἔρωτος ἐνθέου,
	ἔνθεν συνῆξε πλοῦτον ὃς μένει μόνος:·
	ῥεῖ πάντα γῆς γὰρ, καὶ λόγος μένει μόνο(ς):-

Type(s)	[1955] Ἔσπευσαν ἄλλοι χρυσὸν εὑρεῖν ἐν βίῳ (12 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1275
Manuscript	MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 277 (Vlad. 18) [1275]
Place in Manuscript	f. 258v
Person(s)	Patron Alypios (13th c.) - PLP: I.724 (monachos) Scribe Meletios (13th c.) - VGH: 300.F - PLP: VII.17728 (monachos)
Contextual information	The epigram is followed by a colophon in prose with the date and the name of the scribe. Fonkič-Poljakov (1993: 28) observe that the 'γ' letters after the year and indiction (͵ϛψπ,γ΄ \| ἰνδ,γ΄´) in this colophon are written in a darker ink, and hypothesize that they may have been inscribed after the manuscript had been finished, tentatively suggesting 1272 (=6780 ͵ϛψπ´΄) as the date of production.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram Text-related epigram
Image source(s)	http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/modules/papyri/?zoom=40&left=-8&top=-20&site=INTF&image=30248/0/5270/20/3898
Bibliography	Primary Archimandrite Vladimir, 1894, Sistematičeskoe opisanie rukopisej Moskovskoj Sinodal’noj (Patriarsej) Biblioteki. Rukopisi grečeskija (vol. 1), Moscow: 19 Archimandrite Vladimir, X. Grichine, J. Johannet, 1995, Description systématique des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Synodale Patriarchale de Moscou. Grec 1 à grec 105 (vol. 1), Unknown: 23 K. Treu, 1966, Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments in der UdSSR, Berlin: 247 Secondary B. Fonkič, F. Poljakov, 1993, Grečeskie rukopisi Moskovskoj Sinodal’noj Biblioteki. Paleografičeskie, kodikologičeskie I bibliografičeskie dopolnenijak katalogu Archimandrita Vladimira (Filantropova), Moscow: 28
Number of verses	9
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Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung'. Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Julián Bértola Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Lev Shadrin, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Julián Bértola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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