Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3007
(formerly typ/1109)

	Τέλος εἴληφεν πυκτὴ ἡ τοῦ Μαρτίου
	διὰ χειρός τε ἐμοῦ τοῦ ἀναξίου
	Νείλωνος μονάζοντος καὶ ἱερέως·
	παρακαλῶ δὲ πάντας πατέρας ἀδελφούς τε
	ὅταν μέλλετε ταύτην εἰληφέναι τὴν δέλτον,
	μνείαν ποιῆτε τῆς ἐμῆς εὐτελείας,
	ὅπως ὁ Θεὸς καὶ πρύτανις τῶν ὅλων
	ἄφεσιν δωρήσῃται τῶν ἐπταισμένων.

Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Neilos II (12th c.) - VGH: 328.B - RGK: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: (abbas of the Monastery of Saint Mary < Grottaferrata < Lazio < Italy)
Tag(s)	Colophon Completion of the book Entreaty (asked to readers) Introduction to the subject Prayer
Comment	Bernard (2018: 35-36): 'The verses are non-prosodic dodecasyllables. All their endings are paroxytonic, and all of them have a clear caesura after fifth or seventh syllable. But the number of syllables is unstable. Most verses have 12 syllables, but verses 4 and 5 have 14. This becomes understandable if we suppose that Neilos devised his verses on the basis of verse halves, that is, kola of 5 or 7 syllables.'
Bibliography	Primary F. Bernard 2018, Rhythm in the Byzantine Dodecasyllable: Practices and Perceptions, in A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas (eds.), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Texts and Contexts, Turnhout, 13-40: 35-36 A. Rocchi, 1883, Codices cryptenses seu Abbatiae Cryptae Ferratae in Tusculano digesti et illustrati, Tusculani: 302-303 Secondary 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: 193 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: 16
Number of verses	8
Occurrence(s)	[18717] τέλος ἤλειφεν ποικτὴ ἡ τοῦ \| μαρτίου [1113] GROTTAFERRATA - Biblioteca Statale del Monumento Nazionale - Δ. α. VII [1113] (f. 138v-139r) (8 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Raf Praet - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Delphine Nachtergaele - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Lev Shadrin - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 720: "Librarii subscr."
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