Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21471
(formerly occ/5291)

	·:· στίχοι κυρ(οῦ) κωνσταντίνου τοῦ βέστου· τοῦ κ(αὶ) γρα\|νάτου. εἰς τήνδε τὴν βίβλον:·

	Ὁ τήνδε θέλων ἀναγνῶναι τὴν βίβλον,
	μὴ πρὸς τὸ μέτρον ἀπίδης τὸ τῶν στίχων· \|\|
	μὴ μαλακισθῆς τῶ σαφεῖ τῶν ῥημάτ(ων):
	μὴ σχῆμα τυχὸν ῥητορικόν που σκόπει:
	μὴ φράσ(ιν) ἁβρῶς γλαφυρ(ῶς) τορνευμένην:
	μὴ κόμπον ἄλλον ἄκροτόν τε ποικῖλον:
	μὴ δὲν τί θέλγον ἀκοὰς ἀνηνύτως:
	ἐκτὸς γὰρ αὕτη. θελκτικοῦ παντὸς λόγου:
	(καὶ) σῶμα τέρπον, οὔμεν οὖν ἤσκηκέ τι:
	ψυχὴν δὲ τὰ θέλγοντα. (καὶ) σώζοντά γε:
	ἐνταῦθα, πν(εῦ)μα τοίνυν ὄψει (καὶ) μόνον:
	(καὶ) νοῦν θεωρὸν ἐνθέων διδαγμάτων:
	τῶν δ’ αὖ ἐκεῖθ(εν), ἱκανὴν γνῶσιν λάβεις:
	ἐφ’ οἷς ἀναγνῶς εἰ σκοπήσεις εὐστόχως:
	οἷς (καὶ) δράσειας τοὺς σεβασμίους λόγους
	τοῦ τῆδε τούτους εὐφυῶς γεγραφότος,
	ἀνδρὸς τιμίου καὶ γέροντος ἁγίου,
	θαύμαζε τοῦτον, ἀξιῶν ἐγκωμίων,
	γέραιρε. τίμα. (καὶ) σεβάζου. καὶ κάλει,
	φθάνειν ἀεί σοι τοῦτου τὰς δυσωπίας,
	ἅς πρὸς τὸ θεῖον ἱλαρὼς ἀναφέρει:·

Type(s)	[4055] Ὁ τήνδε θέλων ἀναγνῶναι τὴν βίβλον (21 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1318
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - Coisl. 341 [14th-15th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 4r-4v
Person(s)	Scribe Kallinikos (14th c.) - RGK: II.293 - VGH: 226.G - PLP: V.10398
Contextual information	The epigram precedes Philip Monotropos' Dioptra and is followed by a numerical riddle on the author's name.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Reader-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Philip Monotropos (12th c.) (monotropos)
Comment	Devreesse (1945: 325): '(ff. 4-5) vers de Constantin Bestès'. He gives only the incipit but refers to Krumbacher, Geschichte Der Byzantinischen Litteratur, pp. 743-744.
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b11004567s/f5.item
Bibliography	Primary B. De Montfaucon, 1715, Bibliotheca Coisliniana, olim Segueriana, Paris: 451 R. Devreesse, 1945, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des manuscripts. Catalogue des manuscripts grecs. Le fonds Coislin (vol. 2), Paris: 325
Number of verses	21
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Occurrence 21471 (formerly occ/5291)

Occurrence 21471
(formerly occ/5291)