Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2468
(formerly typ/541)

	Ἔγραψεν ἡ χεὶρ Ἰωάννου τὴν βίβλον
	πτώχου μοναστοῦ τῷ μονοτρόπων βίῳ
	τὸ φῶς ἀμυδρὸν ὄψεως κεκτημένου
	καὶ χεῖρα δυσκίνητον εἰς γραφὴν τρόμω
	ταύτην ἀνάγκῃ τήν βίβλον γεγραφότος.
	Ὡς κωλύμην ἔχοντος ἀμβλυωπίαν
	ἔτι τὲ χειρὸς τὸν τρόμον πρὸς τὸ γράφειν,
	οὕτως ἔχοντα τίς ὁ κινήσας βίᾳ.
	Ἔρως Ἰωσὴφ σεβαστοῦ Βρυεννίου
	ὅστις ἔνυξε χεῖρα ναρκῶσαν μόλις
	Διονύσιον εἰς τὸ γράψαι τὸν μέγαν
	καὶ νοῦν ὅμοιον εἰς σχολίων ἐκθέσεις.

Title(s)	In Pseudo-Dionys. Areopagitam
Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Patron-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Ioannes (14th-15th c.) - RGK: III.333 - VGH: 209.L - PLP: IV.8564 (monachos) Ioseph Bryennios (14th-15th c.) - PLP: II.3257 Pseudo-Dionysios the Areopagite (5th c. - 6th c.)
Tag(s)	Completion of the book Self-presentation
Bibliography	Primary R. Devreesse, 1937, Codices Vaticani Graeci. Codices 330-603 (vol. 2), Vatican City: 70
Number of verses	12
Occurrence(s)	[17953] Ἔγραψεν ἡ χεὶρ Ἰωάννου τὴν βίβλον [14th-15th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 376 [14th-15th c.] (f. 262r) (12 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Nina Vanhoutte The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification
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Last modified: 2025-04-03.