Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2119
(formerly typ/178)

	Χεῖρες φίλαι, κόλποι τε καὶ σύ, καρδία,
	ὑμῖν τὸ σεπτὸν χρῆμα πιστεύω μόνοις·
	ὑμεῖς λαβόντες, εὐλαβῶς τηρεῖτέ μοι
	τὸ μάργαρόν μου τοῦτο τὸ βρύον χάριν
	καὶ τῆς ἄνωθεν ἀστραπῆς πεπλησμένον,
	οὗ κρεῖττον οὐδὲν εὗρον ἐν τοῖς τιμίοις,
	οὗπερ τὸ κάλλος θαυμάσας πάντων πλέον
	ὡς ἔμπορος σοφός τις ἀντεκτησάμην,
	Τούτῳ τε πλουτῶ καὶ τρυφῶ καὶ ζῶ πλέον
	ἢ πᾶσιν οἷς πέφυκα χαίρειν ἐν βίῳ.
	Ἀλλʹ εὐαγῶς φέροιτο καὶ σώζοιτό μοι
	οὕτως ἄχραντον, λάμπον οὕτως εἰς τέλος.

Text source	G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 225
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Tag(s)	Address to the reader
Comment	The epigram is also occurs in a 16th-century manuscript: Lesbos, Mone tou Leimonos 220 (1527).
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined R. Devreesse, 1937, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 330-603 (vol. 2), Vatican City: 16 S. Kadas, 1996, Τά σημειώματα τῶν χειρογράφων τῆς Μονῆς Διονυσίου, Athos: 7 S. Mercati 1970, Confessione di fede di Michele Categumeno del monastero fondato da Michele Attaliate, in S. Mercati (ed.), Collectanea Byzantina (vol. 1), Bari, 609-617: 616-617 A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, 1884, Μαυρογορδάτειος Βιβλιοθήκη ἤτοι Γενικὸς περιγραφικὸς κατάλογος τῶν ἐν ταῖς ἀνὰ τὴν Ἀνατολὴν βιβλιοθήκαις εὑρισκομένων ἑλληνικῶν χειρογράφων, Constantinople: 111 A. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, 1884, Κατάλογος τῶν ἐν ταῖς βιβλιοθήκαις τῆς νήσου Λέσβου ἑλληνικῶν χειρογράφων, Constantinople: 111
Number of verses	12
Occurrence(s)	[24005] Χεῖρες φίλαι, κόλποι τε καὶ σὺ καρδία [13th c.] ATHOS - Mone Dionysiou 37 [13th c.] (f. 8v) (12 verses) [24550] Χεῖρες φίλαι· κόλποι τε· κ(αὶ) σὺ καρδία [14th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 43 [14th c.] (f. 196r) (12 verses) [17093] Χεῖρες φίλαι· κόλποι τε καὶ σὺ καρδία [1087] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 24r) (12 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Paratexts of the Bible (Pinakes), 18044 Vassis ICB 2005, 857: "In psalterium"
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