Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19924
(formerly occ/3528)

	Δέσποτα χ(ριστ)ὲ· (καὶ) θεὲ τῶν ἁπάντων·
	ἄφεσίν μοι δῶς· τῶν πολλῶν ἐγκλημάτων·
	ὧνπερ ἔπραξα· ἐν γνώσει (καὶ) ἀγνοία·
	πρεσβείαις τῆς σὲ· ἀφθόρως κυησάσης·
	προφητῶν ὁμοῦ· (καὶ) σοφῶν ἀποστόλων·
	ἀθλοφόρων τε· ἱεραρχῶν ὁσίων:
	γυναικῶν ἀσκητριῶν (καὶ) ἀθληφόρων·
	τῶν γεχραμμένων ἐ[ν] τῶδε τῶ βιβλίω·
	Δυσωπῶ πάντ(ας) ἐν ταύτη τῆ δέλτωι·
	ἐντυγχάνοντας· μνείαν ἐμοῦ ποιῆιτε·
	ἐν ταῖς πρὸς θ(εὸ)ν ὑμετέραις πρεσβείαις·
	λύσιν με λαβεῖν τ(ῶν) πολλ(ῶν) ὀφλημάτων·
	ἱν' ἀξιοθῶ· μερὶς (sic) τῶν σωζομένων·
	ἐν τῆι δευτέρα τοῦ χ(ριστο)ῦ παρουσίαι·
	τὸν πόθω πολλῶ (καὶ) κόπω γεγραφότη·
	ἀναξίω τε ἱερεῖ σωφρονίῳ·
	(καὶ) ἐν μοναχοῖς πελόντι ἐλαχίστω:

Type(s)	[3917] Δέσποτα Χριστὲ καὶ Θεὲ τῶν ἁπάντων (17 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	31/12/1102
Manuscript	GROTTAFERRATA - Biblioteca Statale del Monumento Nazionale - Δ. α. V [31/12/1102]
Place in Manuscript	f. 160r
Person(s)	Patron Nikolaos (12th c.) - VGH: 328.B, 412.G (abbas of the Monastery of Saint Mary < Grottaferrata < Lazio < Italy) Scribe Sophronios (12th c.) - VGH: 412.G (hieromonazoon)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Apostles Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Prophet(s) Sophronios (12th c.) - VGH: 412.G (hieromonazoon) Theotokos
Bibliography	Primary A. Rocchi, 1883, Codices cryptenses seu Abbatiae Cryptae Ferratae in Tusculano digesti et illustrati, Tusculani: 299 C. Stavrakos 2020, The church of Sts Theodoroi (formerly St Kournatos) in Myrtia, Laconia, and its inscriptions, in M. Lauxtermann, I. Toth (eds.), Inscribing Texts in Byzantium: Continuities and Transformations, Abingdon, 347-364: 352
Number of verses	17
Related occurrence(s)	[19925] δέσποτα χ(ριστ)ὲ· καὶ κτήστα τῶν ἁπάντων [1101-1110] GROTTAFERRATA - Biblioteca Statale del Monumento Nazionale - Δ. α. VII [1101-1110] (f. 139r) (6 verses) (3/17) [19926] πάντας δυσωπῶ τοὺς ἐν \| τῆδε τῆ δέλτω [1114] GROTTAFERRATA - Biblioteca Statale del Monumento Nazionale - Δ. α. VIII [1114] (f. 115v) (3 verses) (2/17) [29769] Τέλος ὧδε πέφηκε ταύτης τῆς δέλτου [17/04/1496] ISTANBUL - Patriarchike Bibliotheke - Hagia Trias 128 [17/04/1416] (f. 236v) (22 verses) (1/17) [22013] γλυκὺ τὸ γράφειν βιβλίου \| τέλος ἄπαν [April 1112] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1531 [01/04/1112-30/04/1112] (f. 309v) (4 verses) (1/17)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Eleonora Lauro Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, 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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