Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19687
(formerly occ/3231)

	+ ὄρθωσις αὐτῆς σφαλμάτ(ων) ῥαθυμί(ας)·
	γεωργίου δ’ ἐξ εὐτελοῦς μονοτρόπου·
	ὃς βιβλοφύλαξ τῆσδε τῆς μονῆς πέλει
	ᾧ πάντες εὐχὰς προ(σ)νέμοιτε γνησί(ως).
	ἐντυγχάνοντες τῆ βίβλω γ’ ἀπρο(σ)κόπ(ως).
	στιγμαῖς τὲ (καὶ) γράμμασι (καὶ) προσωδίαις.

Type(s)	[2984] Ὄρθωσις αὐτῆς σφαλμάτων ῥαθυμίας (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1064
Manuscript	MESSINA - Biblioteca Universitaria - S. Salv. 71 [April 1064]
Place in Manuscript	f. 168r
Person(s)	Scribe Gerasimos (11th c.) - VGH: 65.J (bibliophylax, monachos)
Contextual information	This poem is the last in a series of three epigrams. Between the second and third poem there is a colophon in prose.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Image source(s)	Lake IX, plate 644
Bibliography	Primary K. Bentein, K. Demoen 2012, The Reader in Eleventh-Century Book Epigrams, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 69-88: 80-81 F. Euangelatou-Notara, 1982, Σημειώματα ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων ὡς πηγὴ διὰ τὴν ἔρευναν τοῦ οἰκονομικοῦ καὶ κοινωνικοῦ βίου τοῦ Βυζαντίου ἀπὸ τοῦ 9ου αἰῶνος μέχρι τοῦ ἔτους 1204, Athens: 166 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: 500 J. Irigoin 1979, Paléographie et codicologie. La production d’un scriptorium de Constantinople peu après le milieu du XIe siècle, in P. Cockshaw, M. Garand, P. Jodogne (eds.), Miscellanea codicologica F. Masai dicata, Ghent, 175-183: 177 K. Lake, S. Lake, 1938, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200. Manuscripts in Rome, part III, in Messina, in Naples, and in London (vol. 9), Boston: 5 A. Mancini, 1907, Codices graeci monasterii Messanensis S. Salvatoris, Messina: 130 O. Volk 1955, Die byzantinischen Klosterbibliotheken von Konstantinopel, Thessalonike und Kleinasien, Munich: 39 display 4 more references (7 in total) hide 4 references (7 in total)
Number of verses	6
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Sien De Groot The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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