Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

• Entreaty for a third person
• Prayer

• Degene die schreef met zijn vingers, de bezitter,
  degene die leest met eerbied:
  bescherm hen alle drie, Drievuldigheid, driemaal zalig.

  Language

  Dutch

  Source(s)

  J. Boeten, S. De Groot 2022, Verzen uit de marge (gehaald): een introductie op Byzantijnse boekepigrammen, Tetradio - Tijdschrift van het Griekenlandcentrum, 30, 11-34: 17

• The one who has written (this book) with his fingers,
  the one who has produced/acquired it, and the one who reads it with piety,
  safeguard these three, O Trinity, in threefold happiness.

  Language

  English

  Source(s)

  K. Demoen 2022, Reading: Book Epigrams - Introduction, in F. Spingou (ed.), The Visual Culture of Later Byzantium (vol. 2), Cambridge / New York, 1369-1380: 1369

• 'The one who has written this book with his fingers, its owner, and its reader: save the three of them, most holy Trinity'.

  Language

  English

  Source(s)

  K. Bentein, K. Demoen 2012, The Reader in Eleventh-Century Book Epigrams, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 69-88: 69

• 'Scriptorem et possessorem et lectorem prompte custodi hos tres trinitas ter beata'.

  Language

  Latin

  Source(s)

  I. Hardt, 1806, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum Bibliothecae Regiae Bavaricae. Cod. CCXXXIV-CCCXLVII continens (vol. 3), Munich: 116

• [4065] Τῷ τῇ βίβλῳ γράψαντι τῷ κεκτημένῳ (3 verses) (Variant (other wordings))
• [35482] Τῷ τῇ βίβλῳ γράψαντι, τῷ κεκτημένῳ (4 verses) (Variant (other wordings))
• [3843] Τῷ ἔχοντι καὶ γράψαντι Χριστέ μου σῶσον (1 verse)

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• Paratexts of the Bible (Pinakes) , 18900
• Vassis ICB 2005, 772: "Librarii nota"