Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 36674

Ὡς κρεῖττον οὐδέν ἐστι τῆς σεβασμίας
ἀκηράτου τε λήξεως, ὡς τοῦτό γε
σαφῶς διδάσκει κλῆσις ἡ τοῦ σαββάτου.
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: 243
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) Psalter
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Vraiment, il n’y a rien de préférable à la vénération
et à la cessation totale, comme l’enseigne
clairement l’appellation du « sabbat ».
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: 242
Comment On the authorship of this cycle of poems, see Bady (2021: 221-223).
The epigram also occurs in Par. gr. 1630 (f. 221r), 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) [36676] ὡς κρεῖττον οὐδεν εστι τ(...) σεβασ(...) [13th c.]
VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 342 [1087-1088] (f. 162r)
(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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