Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21463
(formerly occ/5282)

	στίχοι περὶ τ(ῶν) ἀναβαινόντ(ων) ταύτ(ην) τ(ὴν) τ(ῶν) ἀρετ(ῶν) κλίμ(ακα):-

	Τέλο(ς) κλίμακος οὐ(ρα)νοδρόμου βίβλου:
	ἀφ’ ἧς ἀποτρέχουσιν οἱ ψυχοκτόνοι·
	ἐφ’ ἣν ἐπιτρέχουσιν οἱ σαρκοκτόνοι·
	ἀφ’ ἧς καταβαίνουσιν οἱ νοοκτόνοι·
	ἐφ’ ἣν ἀναβαίνουσιν οἱ παθοκτόνοι·
	βροτοὶ μὲν οὗτοι· τὸ πλέον δὲ (καὶ) νόες:
	ἀποξύσαντες τῆς λεβηρίδος πάχος, ‖
	ὀπῆς στενῆς ἔσωθεν, ὡς γῆρας ὄφις·
	καινοὶ φανέντες ὡς κενοὶ κενοῦ βίου:
	καὶ, νοῖ κατασταθέντες, ὡς ἐπηρμένοι·
	ἥνπερ δίδου σὺ σαῖς λιταῖς ἰωάννη·
	ὁ τήνδ’ ἐγείρας ὡς λίθοις στερροῖς λόγοις·
	ὁ τήνδε πήξας ἄγαν εὐτεχνεστάτως,
	ἀνεμποδίστως ἀναβαίνειν ὡς γράφεις·
	τῷ τῆσδε γραφῇ ῥακενδύτῃ νικάνδρῳ,
	(καὶ) κυπριανῷ τῷ θ(εο)ῦ θυηπόλῳ,
	τῷ τήνδε πολλῷ τῷ πόθῳ κτησαμένῳ·
	θησαυρὸν ὡς ἄσυλον (ὡς) θ(εο)ῦ χάριν,
	ὡς πρόξενόν γε ψυχικῆς σωτηρίας:-

Type(s)	[3072] Τέλος κλίμακος οὐρανοδρόμου βίβλου (19 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 264 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 256v-257r
Person(s)	Patron Kyprianos (14th c.) (thuepolos) Scribe Nikandros (14th c.)
Palaeographical information	The poem is delineated with decorative floral headpieces.
Contextual information	The epigram is written after the 'Ladder' of John Klimax and precedes the treatise 'To the Shepherd'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	John Klimax (6th c. - 7th c.) - PMBZ: 13914: "Personenkennziffer: 2791" John Komnenos (12th c.) John the writer (12th c.) Kyprianos (14th c.) (thuepolos) Nikandros (14th c.)
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10037657g/f262.item
Bibliography	Primary R. Meesters, R. Ricceri 2018, A Twelfth-Century Cycle of Four Poems on John Klimax. Editio princeps, in A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas (eds.), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Texts and Contexts, Turnhout, 285-386: 344-346 R. Ricceri, R. Meesters 2022, A Metrical Colophon on John Klimax's Ladder of Divine Ascent, in F. Spingou (ed.), The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (vol. 2), Cambridge / New York, 1399-1407: 1402-1406 Secondary R. Devreesse, 1945, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des manuscripts. Catalogue des manuscripts grecs. Le fonds Coislin (vol. 2), Paris: 243 R. Meesters, R. Ricceri 2018, A Twelfth-Century Cycle of Four Poems on John Klimax. Editio princeps, in A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas (eds.), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Texts and Contexts, Turnhout, 285-386: 291, 294
Number of verses	19
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Raf Praet Transcriber(s) Lev Shadrin Contributor(s) Renaat Meesters, 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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Occurrence 21463 (formerly occ/5282)

Occurrence 21463
(formerly occ/5282)