Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 18842
(formerly occ/2238)

Στίχοι τοῦ γράψαντο(ς) τ(ὴν) παρ(οῦ)σαν βί(βλον), πε(ρὶ) | τ(ῶν) ἀναβαινόντ(ων) ταύτ(ην) τ(ὴν) τ(ῆς) ἀρετ(ῆς) κλίμακα:-
 
Τέλος κλίμακο(ς) οὐ(ρα)νοδρόμ(ου) βίβλ(ου):-
ἀφ’ ἧς ἀποτρέχ(ου)σιν οἱ ψυχοκτόνοι:-
ἐφ’ ἣν ἐπιτρ(έ)χουσιν οἱ σαρκοκτόνοι:-
ἀφ’ ἧς καταβαίνουσιν οἱ νοοκτόνοι·
ἐφ’ ἣν ἀναβαίνουσιν οἱ παθοκτόνοι·
βροτοὶ μὲν οὗτοι· τὸ πλέ(ον) (δὲ) κ(αὶ) νόες·
ἀποξύσαντ(ε)ς τῆς λεβηρίδο(ς) πάχο(ς),
ὀπῆς στενῆς ἔσωθεν ὡς γῆρ(ας) ὄφις·
κ(αι)νοὶ φαν(έ)ντες (ὡς) κ(ε)νοὶ κενοῦ βίου·
κ(αὶ)· νοῖ κατασταθέντες ὡς (ἐπ)ηρμένοι·
ἥνπ(ε)ρ δίδου σὺ σαῖς λιταῖς ἰωάννη·
ὁ τ(ήν)δ’ ἐγείρ(ας) ὡς λίθοις στ(ε)ρροῖς λόγοις·
ὁ τ(ήν)δε πήξ(ας) ἄγαν εὐτεχν(ε)στάτως,
σ(οῖς) ἰωάνναις ἀναβαίν(ειν) ὡς γράφεις·
τ(ῷ) τ(ῆσ)δε γραφεῖ. δυσγενεῖ· κακοτρόπωι·
τ(ῷ) τ’ εὐγενεῖ τὸν βί(ον)· (ὡς δὲ), κ(αὶ) γένος·
γέν(ους) κομνηνοῦ· σχήματος μονοτρ(ό)π(ου)·
κ(αὶ) κλήσεως (δὲ), τῆς γ(ε) χαριτωνύμου·
ἄλλ(ως) γ(ὰρ), ἀμήχανον (ἔστιν). ὡς λέγεις:
Type(s) [3072] Τέλος κλίμακος οὐρανοδρόμου βίβλου (19 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 12th c.
Manuscript MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 480 (Vlad. 193) [12th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 389r
Palaeographical information The title and initial are written in red ink.
Contextual information The epigram precedes the treatise 'To the Shepherd'.
Genre(s)
Subject(s)
Comment Vladimir (1995: 238) gives no text, but refers to Mosq. Sin. 229 (Vlad. 192), f. 321r.
Bibliography

Primary

Secondary

R. Meesters, R. Ricceri 2018, A Twelfth-Century Cycle of Four Poems on John Klimax. Editio princeps, in A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas (eds.), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Texts and Contexts, Turnhout, 285-386: 289, 294
Number of verses 19
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Delphine Nachtergaele
Transcriber(s)
Lev Shadrin
Contributor(s)
Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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