Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20390
(formerly occ/4052)

	+ τέλος κράτιστον, ἀρετῶν ψαλμῶν τέλος· \|
	» κράτος γὰρ αὐτῶν, τῶν φιλαρέτων κράτος, \|
	» τύπος καλῶν δε, τῶνδε τυγχάνει τύπος· \|
	» κύκλος τριπλοῦς σοι, τῶν σεβασμίων \| κύκλος·
	καὶ πενταπλοῦς οὗτος γε, \| » νῦν ὤφθη κύκλος·:

Type(s)	[6347] Τέλος κράτιστον ἀρετῶν ψαλμῶν τέλος (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	15th c.
Manuscript	ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 1230 [15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 214v
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink. The scribe marks the internal caesura with a comma and a blank space.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of the Psalter.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Psalter
Comment	Eustratiades (1924: 206): 'Στίχοι ἰαμβικοὶ εἰς τὸ τέλος τῶν ψαλμῶν Δαυίδ'.
Bibliography	Secondary S. Eustratiades, V. Arkadios, 1924, Κατάλογος τῶν ἐν τῇ ἱερᾷ μονῇ Βατοπεδίου ἀποκειμένων κωδίκων, Cambridge: 206
Number of verses	5
Related occurrence(s)	[24340] τέλο(ς) κράτιστον, ἀρετῶν ψαλμῶν τέλο(ς) [13th c.] ATHOS - Mone Dionysiou 60 [13th c.] (f. 6r) (5 verses) (5/5) [24546] τέλος κράτιστον, ἀρετῶν ψαλμ(ῶν) τέλος [14th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 43 [14th c.] (f. 195v) (5 verses) (5/5)
Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of Raf Praet. Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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