Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 31101

	Τὴν ὑμνολέκτων τῶν ἀποστόλων βίβλον
	πόνοις Ἰωάννου ἀναγνώστου,
	ἥνπερ κατέσχον οἱ σχολάζοντες ταύτην
	μέλι στάζουσιν ἡδὺ ἐκ τῶν χειλέων,
	θεὸν αἰνοῦντες τὸν πρύτανιν τῶν ὅλων
	καὶ νῦν δὲ Χριστῷ τῷ φιλανθρώπῳ χάριν.

Title(s)	In laudem ss. Apostolorum
Text source	DBBE (based on occurrence Τὴν ὑμνολέκτων τῶν \| ἀποστόλων βίβλον)
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Ioannes (12th c.) (anagnostes)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Apostles
Tag(s)	Colophon Reference to content of the book Spiritual value of the book
Comment	1 an ὑμνόλεκτον scribendum?
Bibliography	Primary Mount Athos Repository (last accessed: 2025-06-27). https://repository.mountathos.org/jspui/handle/20.500.11957/78954
Number of verses	6
Occurrence(s)	[31103] Τὴν ὑμνολέκτων τῶν \| ἀποστόλων βίβλον [1181] ATHOS - Mone Xenophontos 1 [1181] (f. 102v) (6 verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Cristina Cocola 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: 2020-12-10.