Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 20840
(formerly occ/4541)

	+ ἅπαξ ἀναγν(οῦς) τ(ὴν) βίβλον ταύτ(ην) ὅλ(ην)·
	ὡς εἰς βυθ(ὸν) πέπτωκα σοῖς σοφοῖς λόγοις
	κ(αὶ) πνίγομαι φεῦ χεῖρα δός μοι παμμάκαρ:
	δοτὴρ διονύσιε τῶν γεγραμμένων
	κ(αὶ) τοῦ κλύδωνο(ς) τ(ῆς) ἀγνωσίας ῥῦσαι:
	τ(ὸν) οἰκέτην σου γεώργιον τὸν τάλαν

Type(s)	[4427] Ἅπαξ ἀναγνοὺς τὴν βίβλον ταύτην ὅλην (6 verses)
Text source	A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, 1915, Ἱεροσολυμιτικὴ βιβλιοθήκη ἤτοι κατάλογος τῶν ἐν ταῖς βιβλιοθήκαις τοῦ ἁγιωτάτου ἀποστολικοῦ τε καὶ καθολικοῦ ὀρθοδόξου πατριαρχικοῦ θρόνου τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων καὶ πάσης Παλαιστίνης ἀποκειμένων ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων (vol. 5), Saint-Petersburg: 204 DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	ATHENS - Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados - Metochion Pan. Taphou 642 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 191v
Person(s)	Scribe Georgios (14th c.)
Palaeographical information	Papadopoulos-Kerameus (1915: 204): 'προσθήκη ἐπιγράμματος διὰ στοιχείων ἐρυθρῶν 14-ης ἑκατ'. Written in two columns, to be read horizontally.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Georgios (14th c.) Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Comment	Due to the bad quality of the reproduction and the damage of the folio, Papadopoulos-Kerameus (1915: 204) has been kept as text source for the last words of vv. 2, 4 and 6.
Bibliography	Primary J. Boeten, S. De Groot 2022, Verzen uit de marge (gehaald): een introductie op Byzantijnse boekepigrammen, Tetradio - Tijdschrift van het Griekenlandcentrum, 30, 11-34: 29-30 S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 229-230
Number of verses	6
Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (Patristik: Dionysius-Areopagita)’. Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Sien De Groot Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Sien De Groot, 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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