Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2980
(formerly typ/1081)

	Ὁ ταύτην γράψας τὴν προκειμένην δέλτον
	Πέτρος μοναχὸς καὶ ἱερεὺς ἀχρεῖος
	Ἕχουσαν ἔνδον ἀκολουθίας δύο
	Τοῦ σχήματός τε καὶ τῶν κεκοιμημένων,
	Ῥανίδος τυχεῖν ἐλέους ἐξαιτεῖτε
	Ὅσοις τῷ Θεῷ διʹ αὐτῆς λιπαρῶσιν
	Συγχώρησίν τε καὶ λύσιν ὀφλημάτων.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Tag(s)	Acrostic Address to the reader Entreaty (asked to readers)
Comment	Initial letters from each verse form an acrostic with the scribe's name: Ο ΠΕΤΡΟΣ
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined F. Euangelatou-Notara, 1982, Σημειώματα ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων ὡς πηγὴ διὰ τὴν ἔρευναν τοῦ οἰκονομικοῦ καὶ κοινωνικοῦ βίου τοῦ Βυζαντίου ἀπὸ τοῦ 9ου αἰῶνος μέχρι τοῦ ἔτους 1204, Athens: 161 K. Lake, S. Lake, 1939, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200. Manuscripts in in Florence, Athens, Grottaferrata and the Meteora (vol. 10), Boston: 14 A. Mai, 1905, Novae patrum bibliothecae. Liturgica (vol. 10.2), Rome: 2.144 A. Rocchi, 1883, Codices cryptenses seu Abbatiae Cryptae Ferratae in Tusculano digesti et illustrati, Tusculani: 288
Number of verses	7
Occurrence(s)	[17117] Ὁ ταύτην γράψας την προκειμένην δελτον [1055] GROTTAFERRATA - Biblioteca Statale del Monumento Nazionale - Γ. β. XLIII [1055] ((gen.) end of ms.) (7 verses)
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 556: "Librarii subscr."
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Last modified: 2020-02-18.