Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20105
(formerly occ/3737)

+ ὕψιστε κριτὰ τῆς γῆς ἁπάσης·
ὁ σάρκα λαβῶν ἐκ τῆς ἁγνῆς παρθ(ένου)·
(καὶ) τὴν φθαρείσαν φύσιν τὴν τῶν ἀν(θρώ)πων·
ἀνακαινίσας ὡς αὐτὸς ἠβουλήθης·
(καὶ) τρέφης πάντας ὁ γαλακτοτροφίσ(ας)·
σώζεις τοὺς εἰς σὲ πόθω πεπιστευκότ(ας)·
εἶτα πάλιν νῦν δυσωπώ σε ὁ τάλας·
ὁ τῶν ἐντολῶν ἁπασῶν σου μὴ κλέψας·
σῶσαι φύλαττε (καὶ) σκέπε τὸν σὸν δοῦλον·
ἱερέαν κοδουμνὴν τὸν ἐκ χανδάκου κρητ(ης):
Τὸ κτησαμένω πόθω τὴν δέλτον ταύτην·
κατεύοδοσον ἐκ δεξιόν σου στῆναι·
κ(αὶ) εἰσακούσειν εὐλογιμένοι δεῦτε:
ἐγὼ δὲ πά(λιν) ὁ βεβορβορομένος·
ὁ γράψας ταύτην μιχαὴλ ἀναγνώστης
βοᾶ σοι φωνὴν ἐκ ῥυπαρῶν χειλέων·
τοῦ τάξαι αὐτὸν εἰς μέρος παραδείσου·
Type(s) [4031] Ὕψιστε Θεὲ κριτὰ τῆς γῆς ἁπάσης (17 verses)
Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status Text completely known
Date 15th c.
Manuscript EL ESCORIAL - Real Biblioteca R.I.4 [11th-12th c.]
Place in Manuscript f. 245r
Person(s)
Scribe
Michael (15th c.) - PLP: VIII.19049 (anagnostes)
Palaeographical information Written by a later hand.
Contextual information Written at the end of the manuscript.
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Genre(s) Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)
Comment Miller (1966: 2) gives only the incipit and Revilla (1936: 4) six verses.
Image source(s) https://rbme.patrimonionacional.es/s/rbme/item/15706#?xywh=-4295%2C-1%2C12623%2C5510&cv=507
Bibliography

Primary
Number of verses 17
Related occurrence(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Raf Praet
Transcriber(s)
Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout
Contributor(s)
Julie Boeten, Rachele Ricceri, Lotte van Olmen, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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