Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2944
(formerly typ/1043)

	Πρόσταγμα πεπλήρωκα τοῦ ποθουμένου,
	σὺ δ᾽ ὦ λατρευτὰ τῆς τριφεγγοῦς οὐσίας,
	φίλε καθαρὲ καὶ Θεοῦ θείε δοῦλε,
	κύρι Γεώργιε, τοὐπίκλην Ταρτούζου,
	εἴπερ θελήσεις ὀφέλειαν νοός σου
	καὶ ψυχῆς ἀγλάϊσιν εὖ εὕροις μᾶλλον
	καὶ τερπνὴν ὡράϊσιν διὰ παντὸς τοῦ δέμας,
	γένοιο λοιπὸν τῆς παρούσης ἐργάτης,
	δίελθε ταύτην κατατρυφῶν ἀεῖεν
	τῆς ἀγχινοίας ὡς ἀρίζηλος ταύτης.
	Ἡμῖν δὲ κύρι καὶ τρισόλβιε φίλε,
	τῷ εὐτελεῖ τε καὶ τληπαθεῖ γραφέα,
	Θεοδώρῳ τοὔνομα καὶ τάχα θύτῃ,
	εὐχὰς ἀμείβου ὅπως τύχω ἐλέους
	τῶν ἀπείρων καὶ πολλῶν μου σφαλμάτων,
	καὶ χαίροις κύρι τῇ ψυχῇ καὶ τῷ σῶμᾳ.
	Τὸ δὲ τέρμα εἴληφεν μηνὶ Ἀπριλίῳ
	τρὶς δισχιλιὰς ἑκατοντὰς ὀκτάς τε
	σὺν ὀγδοηκοντάη τοῦ Ἀδὰμ ὀγδόη.

Text source	C. Constantinides 1993, Poetic Colophons in Medieval Cypriot Manuscripts, in A. Bryer (ed.), The Sweet Land of Cyprus. papers given at the twenty-fifth jubilee Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1991, Nicosia, 319-380: 352-353
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Patron-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Georgios Tartouzos (14th c.) - PLP: XI.27462 Theodoros (14th c.) - RGK: II.174 - VGH: 141.I - PLP: IV.7418
Tag(s)	Colophon Completion of the book Date Dedication Entreaty for first person Prayer Self-presentation Spiritual value of the book
Bibliography	Primary C. Constantinides 1993, Poetic Colophons in Medieval Cypriot Manuscripts, in A. Bryer (ed.), The Sweet Land of Cyprus. papers given at the twenty-fifth jubilee Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Birmingham, March 1991, Nicosia, 319-380: 330 C. Constantinides 2003, A Formulaic Poetic Colophon: Πρόσταγμα πεπλήρωκα τοῦ φιλομένου, in A. Avramea, A. Laiou, E. Chrysos (eds.), Βυζάντιο: κράτος και κοινωνία. Μνήμη Νίκου Οικονομίδη, Athens, 169-177: 172 B. De Montfaucon, 1708, Palaeographia graeca sive de ortu et progressu literarum graecarum, Paris: 72-73 F. Euangelatou-Notara, 2000, Χορηγοί-κτήτορες-δωρητές σε σημειώματα κωδίκων. Παλαιολόγειοι χρόνοι, Athens: 247 H. Omont, 1891, Fac-Similés des manuscrits grecs datés de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris: 19
Number of verses	19
Occurrence(s)	[18652] Πρόσταγμα πεπλήρωκα τοῦ ποθου(μέν)ου [April 1380] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 2632 [April 1380] (f. 232v) (19 verses)
Related type(s)	[34556] Πρόσταγμα πεπλήρωκα τοῦ φιλουμένου (6 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, 647: "Librarii subscr. in lexica"
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