Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3671
(formerly typ/1774)

	Νῖκος λαοῦ μοχθηρᾶς τῆς κακουργίας
	καὶ τῶν πονηρῶν πνευμάτων δίδου, μάκαρ,
	τῷ τὴν μονήν σοι πρὸς μονὰς ζωῆς θέειν
	ξενοτρόπως, αὖθις τε τῷ δειμαμένῳ
	νέμων κατ᾽ ἄμφω τὴν χάριν - τῷ μὲν κράτος,
	ἱλασμὸν ἔνθε τῷ δὲ τῶν ὀφλημάτων.

Text source	A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 478-479
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Patron-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Nicholas of Myra < Lycia < Asia Minor < Turkey (saint) (4th c.)
Tag(s)	Entreaty for a third person Miniature Prayer
Translation(s)	[You who are] the victory of the people over wretched wrong-doing and evil spirits, grant O blessed one, to the [superior?] of your monastery to speed in wondrous fashion to the abodes of life, and likewise to its founder, as you dispense your grace to both – strength to the one, and to the other remission of his debts over here. Language English Source(s) C. Mango 2011, The Epigrams, in P. Canart (ed.), La Bible du Patrice Léon. Codex Reginensis Graecus 1, Città del Vaticano, 59-79: 66 Du, Sieg des Volkes über schlimme Freveltat und böse Geister, Seliger, gib jenem, der dein Kloster (lenkt), auf wunderbare Weise zu den Behausungen des (ewigen) Lebens zu eilen, und wiederum dem, der es erbaut hat, indem du beiden Gnade gewährst, dem einen Kraft, dem anderen aber Vergebung der diesseitigen Sünden. Language German Source(s) A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 478 O vittoria del popolo sopra gli spiriti malvagi malefici e diabolici, esaudisci, o benedetto, colui che guida il tuo monastero perché vada in fretta alle dimore di vita in modo mirabile, come pure colui che lo ha costruito; dispensa ad entrambi la tua grazia, all'uno la forza, all'altro il perdono dei peccati. Language Italian Source(s) A. Iacobini 2006, Libri per i monaci. Segni e immagini di committenza monastica nel mondo bizantino, Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Neoellenici (RSBN), 43, 3-19: 8-9
Comment	The first two words suggest the name of Saint Nicholas (Spatharakis 1976: 11).
Bibliography	Primary C. Mango 2011, The Epigrams, in P. Canart (ed.), La Bible du Patrice Léon. Codex Reginensis Graecus 1, Città del Vaticano, 59-79: 65-66 T. Mathews 1977, The Epigrams of Leo Sacellarios and an Exegetical Approach to the Miniatures of Vat. Reg. Gr. 1, Orientalia Christiana periodica, 43, 94-134: 126-129 I. Spatharakis, 1976, The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Leiden: 10-12
Number of verses	6
Occurrence(s)	[19307] νῖκος λαοῦ μοχθηρᾶς τῆς κακουργίας [926-975] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Reg. gr. 1 [926-975] (f. 3r) (6 verses)
Acknowledgements	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.
Identification	BEiÜ IV, VAT90 Vassis ICB 2005, 488: "Leo Sacellarius*, In s. Nicolaum"
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