Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 23671
(formerly occ/7609)

	+ ἔσφυζον εἶχον ἄσχετον πά\|λαι πόθον: \|
	οὓς πλάστα πάν\|των νοῦς βροτῶν χωρεῖ \|\| μόλις:
	λόγους χαράξαι \| σοὺς διαυγεῖ πυκτίῳ: \|
	ἔχειν δὲ τούτους φῶς, πνο\|ὴν βίου κλέως:
	ὁ σὸς θε(ο)λ(ή)πτ(ος) (?) \| ἔσχατος μονοτρόπων:
	ἔλη\|ξα τοῦ πόθου δὲ νῦν κατ᾽ ἀξίαν: \|
	ἔντοσθεν ἐκτὸς πανταχοῦ \|\| καλλωπίσας:
	ἀλλ᾽ ὦ β\|λύσας ἄβυσσον ἐκ τετραστόμ(ου), \|
	κρήνης μαθητῶν πᾶσαν ἄρ\|δουσαν φρέναν:
	ψυχὴν \| ἐμὴν ἄνικμον ἐν και\|ρῷ δίκης:
	εἴης ποτίζων \| καινὸν ἄμβροτον πόμα:
	ὃ \| σοὺς μαθητὰς εἶπ(ας) ἐκπίν(ειν) τότε:

Type(s)	[2626] Ἔσφυζον, εἶχον ἄσχετον πάλαι πόθον (17 verses)
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Date	12th-13th c.
Manuscript	LONDON - British Library - Egerton 2783 [12th-13th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 164v-165v
Palaeographical information	The text is written in Epigraphische Auszeichnungsmajuskel in red ink.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Apostles Four Evangelists Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33)
Comment	The name of the scribe at v. 5 is shortened and of uncertain reading (cfr. Stefeč 2011: 337).
Image source(s)	http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=egerton_ms_2783_f164v http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=egerton_ms_2783_f165r http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=egerton_ms_2783_f165v
Bibliography	Primary R. Nelson, 1978, Text and Image in a Byzantine Gospel Book in Istanbul (Ecumenical Patriarchate, cod. 3), New York: 263, 302 R. Stefec 2011, Anmerkungen zu weiteren Epigrammen in epigraphischer Auszeichnungsmajuskel, Byzantion, 81, 326-361: 336-337 Secondary British Museum, 1894, Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the years. 1888-1893, London: 474
Number of verses	12
Related occurrence(s)	[18178] ἔσφυζον· εἶχον ἄσχετον πάλαι πόθον [1276-1325] ATHOS - Mone Iberon 29 [1276-1325] (f. 160v) (12 verses) (11/12) [18456] Ἔσφυζον, εἶχον ἄσχετον πάλαι πόθον [12th c.] ISTANBUL - Oikoumenikon Patriarcheion Patriarchikon Skeuofulakion 3 [12th c.] (f. 131v-132r) (12 verses) (12/12) [23121] ἔσφυζον· εἶχον ἄσχετον πάλαι πόθον [11th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 219 [11th c.] (f. 3v) (17 verses) (11/12)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Ilse De Vos, 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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