Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24550
(formerly occ/8511)

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	Χεῖρες φίλαι· κόλποι τε· κ(αὶ) σὺ καρδία·
	ὑμῖν τὸ σεπτὸν πᾶν χρῆμα πιστεύω μόνοις·
	ὑμεῖς λαβόντες, εὐλαβῶς τηρεῖτέ μοι·
	τὸ μάργαρόν μου τοῦτο τὸ βρύον χάριν·
	κ(αὶ) τῆς ἄνωθεν ἀστραπῆς πεπλησμένον·
	οὗ κρεῖττον οὐδὲν εὗρον ἐν τοῖς τιμίοις·
	οὗπερ τὸ κάλλος θαυμάσ(ας) πάντων πλέον,
	ὡς ἔμπορος σοφός τις ἀντεκτησάμ(ην)·
	τούτω τὲ πλουτῶ κ(αὶ) τρυφῶ· καὶ ζῶ πλέον,
	ἢ πᾶσιν οἷς πέφυκα χαίρειν ἐν βίῳ·
	ἀλλʹ εὐαγῶς φέροιτο καὶ σώζοιτό μοι,
	οὕτως ἄχραντ(ον)· λάμπον οὕτ(ως) εἰς τέλος:–

Type(s)	[2119] Χεῖρες φίλαι, κόλποι τε καὶ σύ, καρδία (12 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) - gr. 43 [14th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 196r
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram is copied at the end of the Psalms, preceding the Odes.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Psalter
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b107235936/f201.item
Bibliography	Primary G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 225
Number of verses	12
Related occurrence(s)	[24005] Χεῖρες φίλαι, κόλποι τε καὶ σὺ καρδία [13th c.] ATHOS - Mone Dionysiou 37 [13th c.] (f. 8v) (12 verses) (12/12) [17093] Χεῖρες φίλαι· κόλποι τε καὶ σὺ καρδία [1087] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 24r) (12 verses) (12/12)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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Last modified: 2022-09-14.