Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20289
(formerly occ/3942)

	Ἐτελειώθη σὺν θ(ε)ῷ τὸ παρὸν πυκτίον,
	μην(ὶ) μαΐῳ ιβ· \| ἰνδικτιῶνο(ς) τρίτης:
	κύκλο(ς) σελήν(ης) ιθ εἰκὰς τρίτη: \|
	ἔτους ἑξακισχίλια (καὶ) ἑξακὸς πρὸ(ς) τούτοις
	πρὸ(ς) \| δὲ καὶ τρία ἕτερα ἐπὶ τούτοις τυγχάνει:
	διὰ \| χειρὸς ἁμαρτωλοῦ ναζιραίου (καὶ) ξένου:
	καὶ \| πονημα (καὶ) σύγγραμμα τοὔνομα δὲ διόπτρα: \|
	ἄν δὲ καὶ τοὔνομα τουμὸν μαθεῖν ἐθέλεις φίλε, \|
	ἰδοὺ (καὶ) τοῦτο γράφω σοι καὶ ψηφίσας εὑρήσεις: \|
	ὀκτὼ γράμματα ἔχω (καὶ) εἰσὶν ἐκ τοὑτων σύμφω(ν)α \| πέντε:
	τρισύλλαβός εἰμὶ, νόει με: ἡ ὑστάτη \| καὶ ἡ μέση,
	ἀνὰ τρία γράμματα ἔχει ἑκάστη. ἡ \| λοιπὴ δὲ τὰ λοιπά.
	τοῦ παντὸ(ς) δ' ὁ ἀριθμός \| εἰσὶν ἑκατοντάδαι τρεῖς τὸ τρὶς.
	καὶ δέκα δὶς \| τετράκις. ἤγουν ὁ πᾶς
	ἀριθμὸς (καὶ) ψῆφος τούτ(ων) ϡπ:

Type(s)	[4152] Ἐτελειώθη σὺν θεῷ καὶ τὸ παρὸν πτυκτίον (15 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	15th c.
Manuscript	ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 165 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 189v
Palaeographical information	Eustratiades (1919b: 630) reads 'κύκλου σελήνης ιθ´ ' while later, in Eustratiades (1924:39), he reads 'κύκλου σελήνης ιδ´'. The manuscript does read ιθ'
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Philip Monotropos' Dioptra. A marginal gloss is added to the epigram: οὕτως ἦν ἐν τῷ προτοτύπῳ (sic)
Metre(s)	Decapentasyllable Mixture Rhythmical prose
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Philip Monotropos (12th c.) (monotropos)
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: 82 S. Eustratiades 1919, Ἁγιορειτικῶν κωδίκων σημειώματα, Γρηγόριος ὁ Παλαμᾶς, 3, 624-639: 630 S. Eustratiades, V. Arkadios, 1924, Κατάλογος τῶν ἐν τῇ ἱερᾷ μονῇ Βατοπεδίου ἀποκειμένων κωδίκων, Cambridge: 39 S. Kadas, 2000, Τὰ σημειώματα τῶν χειρογράφων τῆς Ἱερᾱς Μεγίστης Μονῆς Βατοπαιδίου, Mount Athos: 29-30
Number of verses	15
Related occurrence(s)	[17581] Ὲτελειώθη σὺν θεῷ καὶ τὸ παρὸν πυκτίον [1454] ATHENS - Bibliotheke tes Boules 32 [1454] (f. 207r) (15 verses) (15/15) [22017] Πε[πλ]ῆρωτ(αι) τοίνυν καὶ τὸ παρὸν\| μηνέον [1251] ATHENS - Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados 842 (f. 89v) (20 verses) (1/15) [30715] εἰ θέλεις δὲ καὶ τοὔνομα μαθεῖν τοῦ γεγραφότος [14th c.] ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 166 [14th c.] (f. 3r) (8 verses) (8/15) [30716] εἰ θέλεις δὲ καὶ τοὔ\|νομα μαθεῖν τοῦ γεγραφότος [14th c.] ATHOS - Mone Iberon 480 [14th c.] (f. 4r) (8 verses) (8/15) [30717] Εἰ θέλεις δὲ καὶ τοὔνομα μαθεῖν τοῦ γεγραφότος [1095] ATHOS - Mone Megistes Lauras Ω 17 (Eustratiades 1827) [1095] (f. 5r) (8 verses) (8/15) [20509] Ἐτελειώθη σὺν θεῷ τὸ παρὸν πυκτίον [1095] ATHOS - Mone Megistes Lauras Ω 17 (Eustratiades 1827) [1095] (f. 208r) (14 verses) (14/15) [18380] ἐτελειώθ(η) τοῦτο γε τῷ μη(νὶ) ἰουννίῳ [1297] CAMBRIDGE - University Library - Dd. IX. 69 [1297] (f. 293v) (4 verses) (1/15) [30718] εἰ θέλεις δὲ καὶ τοὔνομα μαθεῖν τοῦ γεγραφότο[ς]· [13th c.] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. II B 25 [1276-1300] (f. 2r) (8 verses) (8/15) [24008] ἐτελειώθη σὺν θεῷ καὶ τὸ παρὸν Πυκτίον [13th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Clarke 1 [13th c.] () (8 verses) (8/15) [30719] εἰ θέλεις δὲ (καὶ) τοὔνομα μαθ(εῖν) τοῦ γεγραφότος [1318] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 341 [14th-15th c.] (f. 4v-5r) (8 verses) (8/15) [30727] Εἰ θέλεις δὲ (καὶ) τοὔνομα μαθ(εῖν) τοῦ γεγραφότος [1191-1200] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2874 [1191-1200] (f. 2v) (8 verses) (8/15) [17665] ἡδὺ μέν ἐστι τοῖς ξένοις τὰ ἐν οἴκω [1144] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Palat. gr. 24 [1144] (f. 298v) (21 verses) (1/15) [22487] Ἐτελειώθει συν θ[ε]ῶ καὶ τὸ παρὸν πτυκτί(ον) [1201-1210] VIENNA - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB) - theol. gr. 193 [1201-1210] (f. 174r) (15 verses) (15/15) display 10 more occurrences (13 in total) hide 10 occurrences (13 in total)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Juan Bautista Juan López Contributor(s) Dimitrios Skrekas, Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Sien De Groot, Kristoffel Demoen The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Permalink	https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/20289

Last modified: 2025-06-26.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.