Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24328
(formerly occ/8290)

	ἐν κλίνη κατά\|κειμε τὴ ἀμαρ\|τία,
	εἰς άδην \| βυθήζωμε κο\|λαστηρίως· \|
	ἀλλἀ σὺ τὴ κρα\|ταιὰ δίδου μοι χεῖ\|ρα∙
	καὶ τάχους \| βοῶ λύτρωσον \| παναγία. \|
	ἁμαρτωλοῦ \| ἀλεξίου τοῦ \| τάχά τε, \|
	μοναχοῦ τού\|(...)ομά τε, του \| δουκαίτη∙

Type(s)	[6343] Ἐν κλίνῃ κατάκειμαι τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	14th c.
Manuscript	ATHOS - Mone Batopediou 107 [11th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 82v
Person(s)	Scribe Ioannes Doukaïtes (monkname Alexios) (14th c.) (abbas, monachos, papas)
Contextual information	The epigram is written on the left side of a miniature depicting the Theotokos and Christ, stretching out their arms towards each other.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	Ioannes Doukaïtes (monkname Alexios) (14th c.) (abbas, monachos, papas) Theotokos
Comment	These verses are unprosodic dodecasyllables.
Bibliography	Primary G. Galavaris, 1969, The Illustrations of the Liturgical Homilies of Gregory Nazianzenus, Princeton: 216 S. Kadas, 2000, Τὰ σημειώματα τῶν χειρογράφων τῆς Ἱερᾱς Μεγίστης Μονῆς Βατοπαιδίου, Mount Athos: 21 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 241-242, 784 (image: plate 60)
Number of verses	6
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Dimitrios Skrekas The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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