Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 36437

Ὁ Χριστός ἐστι χρηστός, ἠγαπημένος,
ὡραῖος ἐν κάλλει τε καὶ θεοῦ λόγος,
ὅπερ τὸ πανσέβαστον ἐμφαίνει μέλος.
Text source G. Bady 2021, Les vers inédits sur les Psaumes transmis sous le nom de Nicétas Chartophylax, in R. Ceulemans, B. Crostini Lappin (eds.), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium. Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, Uppsala, 207-258: 233
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Critical text
Genre(s) Text-related epigram
Person(s)
Poet
Niketas (12th c.) (chartophylax of Hagia Sophia < Konstantinoupolis < Turkey, metropolites of Thessaloniki < Central Macedonia < Greece)
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Le Christ est bon, il est le bien-aimé,
il est plein de beauté et c’est le Verbe de Dieu,
ce que met en évidence le très auguste chant.
Language
French
Source(s)
G. Bady 2021, Les vers inédits sur les Psaumes transmis sous le nom de Nicétas Chartophylax, in R. Ceulemans, B. Crostini Lappin (eds.), Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium. Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers, Uppsala, 207-258: 232
Comment On the authorship of this cycle of poems, see Bady (2021: 221-223).
The epigram also occurs in Par. gr. 1630 (f. 219v), where it does not function as a book epigram.
Bibliography

Secondary

G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 65 (n. 4)
Number of verses 3
Occurrence(s) [36439] ο χριστ(...) εστι χ(...) ηγαπη(...) [13th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 85r)
(3 verses)
Acknowledgements
Creator(s)
Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 875: "Nicetas Chartophylax, In Psalmos"
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