Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 32129

Σοί, Χριστέ μου, τίθημι ἀρχὴν καὶ τέλος‧
σύμπραξον, πανύμνητε, ἀρχὴ (?) καὶ τέλος.
Title(s) Librarii invocatio
Text source DBBE
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)
Tag(s) Prayer
Translation(s) I put to you, Christ, as beginning and end; cooperate, all praised one, in the beginning and the end [or: you who are the beginning and end]
Language
English
Source(s)
D. Skrekas 2024, Neophytos, Bishop of Grevenou, a lesser-known fifteenth-century author and his hymnographic activity, in K. Kubina, M. Goiana (eds.), Cult, Devotion, and Aesthetics in Later Byzantine Poetry, Turnhout, 185-212: 191
Bibliography

Primary

D. Skrekas 2024, Neophytos, Bishop of Grevenou, a lesser-known fifteenth-century author and his hymnographic activity, in K. Kubina, M. Goiana (eds.), Cult, Devotion, and Aesthetics in Later Byzantine Poetry, Turnhout, 185-212: 191
Number of verses 2
Occurrence(s) [32132] σοὶ χ(ριστ)ὲ μου τίθη μοι ἀρχ(ὴν) καὶ τέλο(ς) [11th c.]
ATHOS - Bibliotheke tou Protatou (Karues) 92 [11th c.] (f. 1r)
(2 verses)
Related type(s)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Maria Tomadaki
Contributor(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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