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)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Theotokos
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)	[2919] Σὺ Χριστὲ μου τέθηκας ἀρχὴν καὶ τέλος (1 verse) (Variant (other wordings))
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki 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.
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