Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3626
(formerly typ/1728)

	Ξένος, Χριστέ μου, γέγονα ἐκ τοῖς ἐμοῖς πατρίδος
	τόποις ἐπεριπάτησα πολλοὺς καὶ διαφόρους,
	πολλούς γε λίθους ἔδειραν οἱ εὐτελεῖς μου πόδες·
	ἀλλ’ ὦ Χριστέ μου, σῶσον με τὸν ἐπὶ ξένοις ξένον,
	ὅπου τὸν ξένον παρορᾷ Θεὸν παραπικραίνει.

Text source	C. De Boor, 1897, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin (vol. 2), Berlin: 175
Text status	Text partially unknown
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Tag(s)	Prayer Self-presentation
Comment	Text source of Studemund, Cohn (1890: 175) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography	Secondary I. Hutter, 1993, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Oxford Christ Church (vol. 4), Stuttgart: 52
Number of verses	5
Occurrence(s)	[30257] ξένος χριστέ μου γέγονα ἐκ τῆς ἐμῆς πατρίδος [15th c.] KRAKóW - Biblioteka Jagiellońska - Berlin Graec. 4°.19 (317) (olim Berlin, Staatsbibliothek) [15th c.] (f. 1v) (5 verses) [19552] ξένος Χριστέ μου γεγονα εκ τοις ἐμὶς π(ατ)ρίδος [13th-14th c.] OXFORD - Christ Church College 70 [1104] (f. 207r) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Delphine Nachtergaele, Lev Shadrin, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 498: "Precatio"
Permalink	https://www.dbbe.ugent.be/types/3626

Last modified: 2021-11-23.