Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 1857
(formerly typ/2)

	Αἶνος Θεῷ, χάρις τε καὶ δόξα πρέπει,
	τῷ δόντι τέρμα τῆς γραφῆς φθάσαι σθένος.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Tag(s)	Completion of the book Entreaty for first person
Bibliography	Primary E. Martini, 1896, Catalogo di manoscritti greci esistenti nelle biblioteche italiane (vol. 1.2), Milan: 263-4 Secondary J. Boeten 2019, Byzantine Particles, a Case Study: Juxtaposed τε καί and δέ in Medieval Dodecasyllables, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS), 59, 529-550: Bibliography category to be determined B. Atsalos, 1971, La terminologie du livre-manuscrit à l'époque byzantine, Thessaloniki: 186 N. Bees, 1915, Κατάλογος τῶν ἑλληνικῶν χειρογράφων κωδίκων τῆς ἑν Πελοποννήσῳ μονῆς τοῦ Μεγάλου Σπηλαίου (vol. 1), Leipzig-Athene: 14 B. De Montfaucon, 1708, Palaeographia graeca sive de ortu et progressu literarum graecarum, Paris: 49, 294 F. Euangelatou-Notara, 1982, Σημειώματα ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων ὡς πηγὴ διὰ τὴν ἔρευναν τοῦ οἰκονομικοῦ καὶ κοινωνικοῦ βίου τοῦ Βυζαντίου ἀπὸ τοῦ 9ου αἰῶνος μέχρι τοῦ ἔτους 1204, Athens: 156 T. Gaisford, 1812, Catalogus sive notitia manusciptorum qui a cel. E.D. Clarke compariti in Bibliotheca Bodleiana adversantur (vol. 1), Oxford: H. Hunger, O. Kresten, C. Hannick, 1984, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Codices Theologici 101-200 (vol. 3.2), Vienna: 20 H. Omont, 1891, Fac-Similés des manuscrits grecs datés de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris: 4 A. Rocchi, 1883, Codices cryptenses seu Abbatiae Cryptae Ferratae in Tusculano digesti et illustrati, Tusculani: 308, 333, 348 K. Staab, 1926, Die Pauluskatenen nach den handschriftlichen Quellen untersucht, Rome: 148 E. Stevenson, 1885, Codices manuscripti Palatini Graeci, Rome: 102 display 7 more references (10 in total) hide 7 references (10 in total)
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[16977] Αἶνος θ(ε)ῶ χάρις τε καὶ δόξα πρέπει [11th c.] KALAVRYTA - Mone Megalon Spelaion 12 [11th c.] (f. 203r) (2 verses) [17385] αἶνος θ(ε)ῶι χάρις τὲ (καὶ) δόξα πρέπει [1044] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 223 [1044] (f. 201v) (2 verses) [17386] αἶνο(ς) θ(ε)ῶ χάρις τε (καὶ) δόξα, πρέπει [11th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Palat. gr. 204 [11th c.] (f. 177r) (2 verses)
Related type(s)	[2121] Χριστῷ ἄνακτι δόξα καὶ κράτος πρέπει. (1 verse) (Variant (other wordings)) [1869] Αἶνος, κράτος, δόξα τε τῷ λόγῳ πρέπει (2 verses) (Variant (other wordings))
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Julián Bértola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 21: "Librarii invoc."
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