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	+ στίχοι τοῦ κυροῦ Κωνσταντίνου καὶ βέστου \| τοῦ γρανάτου· εἰς τὴν βίβλον τοῦ ὁσίου \| π(ατ)ρ(ὸ)ς ἡμῶν φιλίππου· τὴν λεγομενὴν δι\|όπτραν:-

	Ὁ τὴν δε θέλων ἀναγνῶναι τὴν βίβλον,
	Μὴ πρὸς τὸ μέτρον ἀπίδης τὸ τῶν στίχων:
	Μὴ μαλακισθῆς τῶ σαφεῖ τῶν ῥημάτων,
	Μὴ σχῆμα τυχὸν ῥητορικόν που σκόπει:
	Μὴ φράσιν ἀβρῶς γλαφυρ(ῶς) τ' ἠρτυμένην:
	Μὴ κόμπον ἄλλον εὔκροτον (καὶ) ποικίλον:
	Μηδέν τι θελγον ἀκοὰς ἀνηνύτως:
	Ἐκτὸς γὰρ αὕτη θελτικοῦ παντὸς λόγου:
	Καὶ σῶμα τέρπον οὔμενουν ἤσκηκέ τι:
	Ψυχὴν δὲ τὰ θέλγοντα καὶ σώζοντά γε,
	Ἐνταῦθα π(ατέ)ρα τοίνυν ὄψει καὶ μόνον· \|\|
	Καὶ νοῦν θεωρὸν, ἐνθέων διδαγμάτ(...)
	Τῶν δ’ αὖ ἐκεῖθεν ἱκανὴν γνῶσιν λάβοις,
	Ἐφ’ οἷς ἀναγνὼς ἢ 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 τοῦδε τὰς δυσωπίας·
	Ἃς πρὸς τὸ θεῖον ἱλαρῶς 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	1191-1200
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2874 [1191-1200]
Place in Manuscript	f. 2r-2v
Person(s)	Scribe Gerasimos (12th c.) - RGK: I.50, II.65 - VGH: 66.C (archimandrites of the New Monastery of the Theotokos < Chios < Greece, kathegoumenos of the New Monastery of the Theotokos < Chios < Greece)
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)
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b110050927/f8.item https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b110050927/f9.item
Number of verses	21
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Transcriber(s) 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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