Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3698
(formerly typ/1787)

	Ὑμεῖς μὲν ἐσπείρατε, σεπτοὶ πατέρες,
	ἐγὼ δὲ συνέλεξα τοὺς ὑμῶν κόπους.
	Ἀλλ᾽ ἐκδυσωπῶ καὶ τὸ φῶς ὑμῶν ἔχειν,
	ὡς συγκομισθῶ πρὸς μονὰς οὐρανίους.

Text source	A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 414
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Critical text
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Patron-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Alexios I Komnenos (1057 - 15/08/1118) - PBW: Alexios/1/ Church Fathers
Tag(s)	Miniature Prayer
Translation(s)	You have sown, venerable fathers, and I have collected your labours; however, I pray that I may receive also your light so that I will be numbered in the heavenly realms. Language English Source(s) I. Spatharakis, 1976, The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Leiden: 125 Ihr habt gesät, ehrwürdige Väter, ich aber habe eure Mühen sammeln lassen. Indes flehe ich darum, auch euer Licht zu haben, auf dass ich auch zu den himmlischen Wohnstätten gelange. Language German Source(s) A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 414
Comment	The epigram was translated into Slavonic in two 16th-century manuscripts (cf. Parpulov 2022: 342, n. 19 and Tsibranska-Kostova 2017: 10).
Bibliography	Primary W. Hörandner 2007, Zur Topik byzantinischer Widmungs- und Einleitungsgedichte, in V. Panagl (ed.), Dulce Melos: La poesia tardoantica e medievale: Atti del III Convegno internazionale di studi, Vienna, 15-18 novembre 2004, Alessandria, 319-335: 326 I. Spatharakis, 1976, The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts, Leiden: 125 Secondary G. Parpulov 2022, Byzantine Book Epigrams in Medieval Slavonic Manuscripts, Palaeoslavica, 30(1-2), 335-344: 342 (n. 19) M. Tsibranska-Kostova 2017, Encomia in the Slavonic Сopies of Euthymius Zigabenos's Panoplia Dogmatike, Bulgarian Historical Review, 45(3-4), 3-23: 10 Bibliography category to be determined C. Neumann, 1971, Griechische Geschichtsschreiber und Geschichtsquellen im zwölften Jahrhundert. Studien zu Anna Comnena, Theod. Prodromus, Joh. Cinnamus, New York: 32
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[25864] ὑμεῖς μὲν ἐσπείρατε σεπτοὶ π(ατέ)ρες [1151-1200] MOSCOW - Gosudarstvennyj Istoričeskij Musej (GIM) - Sinod. gr. 387 (Vlad. 224) [1151-1200] (f. 6r) (4 verses) [19289] ὑμεῖς μὲν ἐσπείρατε σεπτοὶ π(ατ)έρες [1126-1150] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 666 [1126-1150] (f. 2r) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Lotte van Olmen The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	BEiÜ IV, VAT4 Vassis ICB 2005, 824: "Ad novem patres ecclesiae de panoplia dogmatica e parte Alexii I Comn. imp."
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