Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2826
(formerly typ/925)

Τὸ τέρμα θείας τῆσδε πληρώσας βίβλου
τοῦ Δόξα πατρὶ ῥητορευούσης λίαν
καὶ ἱστορούσης μέροπος πᾶσαν πλάσιν,
δόξαν ἀγαθῷ καὶ πρυτάνει τῶν ὅλων
Χριστῷ Θεῷ μου προσφέρω παντουργέτῃ·
γέγραφα καὶ γάρ ἅπασαν κατὰ μέρος
τοῦ παραδείσου καὶ μέροπος τὴν πλάσιν,
τὸ πῶς, διατί, τὶ πέπονθεν ἐν πᾶσι,
πῶς πάλιν ἐκλήρωσε πείραν θανάτου,
τὶ τὸ ξύλον πέφυκε βρώσεως πλάνη,
ἄλλα ποθειτά κρεῖττον ἢ πολυτίμων
λίθων, σαμφείρων ἢ χρυσῶν πολυπλόκων.
πάντα γέγραφα συνδρομῇ τοῦ ποιμένος
μονῆς ὁσίας θείας ἀκροτηρίου,
Σωτῆρος αὐδῶ, Λουκᾶ παναοιδίμου
ἀρχιμανδρίτου, πτωχοτρόφου καὶ ξένων,
σκέπη πενήτων, χρεία τοῖς ἄλλοις πᾶσιν,
ἔτους τρέχοντος κοσμικοῦ χιλιάδων
ἕξ σὺν ἑκατὸν ἑπτάκις τούτοις πρόσω
εἴκοσι καὶ ἕν, ἰδίκτου πρώτης, φίλοι,
μηνὶ δισέκτω, πέντε καὶ δὶς ἑξάκις.
ὁ Συμεών ἕξυσα τοῦ Βουλκαράμου,
θρέμμα Μεσίνης, μηχανικὸς ἐν τρόποις
αἰτῶν ἀμοιβὴν τῶν βλεπόντων ἐνθάδε
εὔχεσθαί μοι χάριτι τῷ πεσφαλμένῳ.
Text source G. Mercati, 1935, Per la storia dei manoscritti greci di Genova, di varie badie basiliane d'Italia e di Patmo, Vatican City: 68-69
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s) Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) Neilos Doxopatres (1101-1150) - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ:
Tag(s)
Comment The epigram was written in 1213 as one of the colophons of a now lost manuscript copied in Messina. The copyist of the Messina manuscript is Simeon Bulkaramu. The text is preserved in two 16th-century copies of that manuscript, namely Vat. gr. 1426, f. 435v and BNE 04591 (for the latter, cf. Miller 1886: 29-56) (for chronological reasons not included in DBBE).
Bibliography

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Secondary

I. De Vos 2011, East or West, Home is Best. Where to Situate the Cradle of the De Oeconomia Dei?, in P. Van Deun, C. Macé (eds.), Encyclopedic Trends in Byzantium? Proceedings of the International Conference held in Leuven, 6-8 May 2009, Leuven, 245-255: 245, n.1
Number of verses 25
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Lev Shadrin - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Cristina Cocola - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Quinten Goethals - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Ilse De Vos - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ:

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 789: "Librarii subscr."
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