Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2387
(formerly typ/464)

Ἔγραψα χειρὶ. σήπεται. γραφὴ μένει.

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
Bibliography	Primary B. Atsalos 1991, Die Formel Ἡ μὲν χεὶρ ἡ γράψασα… in den Griechischen handschriften, in G. Cavallo, G. De Gregorio, M. Maniaci (eds.), Scritture, libri e testi nelle aree provinciali di Bisanzio. Atti del Seminario di Erice (18-25 settembre 1988) (vol. 2), Spoleto, 691-750: 734 Secondary S. De Groot 2021, Readers' Perspectives on Early Christian Texts. Book Epigrams in the Byzantine Manuscripts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gent: 93, n. 53 Bibliography category to be determined P. Canart, 1970, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 1745-1962. Codicum enarrationes (vol. 7.1), Vatican City: 177 G. Garitte 1962, Sur une formule des colophons de manuscrits grecs, in Collectanea vaticana in honorem Anselmi M. Card. Albareda a Bibliotheca Apostolica edita, Vatican City, 359-390: 364 S. Lucà 1985, Rossano, il Patir e lo stile rossanese. Note per uno studiocodicologico-paleografico e storico-culturale, Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici (RSBN), 22, 93-170: 44 A. Rocchi, 1883, Codices cryptenses seu Abbatiae Cryptae Ferratae in Tusculano digesti et illustrati, Tusculani: 62
Number of verses	1
Occurrence(s)	[18416] ἔγραψα χειρὶ σήπεται γραφὴ μένει [10th c.] GROTTAFERRATA - Biblioteca Statale del Monumento Nazionale - Β. α. IV [10th c.] (f. 183r) (1 verse) [33472] ἔγραψα χειρὶ. σήπεται· γραφὴ μένει [11th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 41 [11th c.] (f. 170v) (1 verse) [17853] ἔγραψα χειρὶ σήπετ(αι) γραφὴ μένει [10th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1809 [10th c.] (f. 194v) (1 verse)
Related type(s)	[1974] Ἡ μὲν χεὶρ ἡ γράψασα σήπεται τάφῳ (2 verses) (Variant (other wordings)) [2246] ἡ χεὶρ μὲν ἡ γράψασα σήψεται τάφῳ (2 verses) (Variant (other wordings))
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 164: "Librarii subscr."
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