Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4397
(formerly typ/2496)

	Ἡ χεὶρ μὲν ἡ γράψασα σήπεται τάφῳ
	γραφὴ δὲ μένει πρὸς χρόνους πληρεστάτους.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Tag(s)	Completion of the book
Translation(s)	la main qui a écrit est destinée à se corrompre dans le sépulcre, mais ce qui a été écrit reste, inalteré, jusqu'à la consommation des siècles Language French Source(s) G. Cavallo, 2006, Lire à Byzance, Paris: 148
Comment	Cf. id.: 309-310.
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[25306] ἡ χεὶρ μ(ὲν) ἡ γράψασα σήπεται τάφω [1320] ATHOS - Mone Megistes Lauras Β 89 (Eustratiades 209) [1320] (f. 257r) (2 verses) [31118] ἡ χεὶρ μὲν ἡ γράψα\|σα‧ σίπεται τά\|φω [1181] ATHOS - Mone Xenophontos 1 [1181] (f. 102v) (2 verses) [16999] Η χεῖρ μὲν ἡ γράψασα. \| σήπετε τάφωι [29/12/1022] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana B 56 sup. [29/12/1022] (f. 187r) (2 verses)
Related type(s)	[37506] Ἔρρει δὲ ἡ χείρ, ἡ γραφὴ δὲ προσμένει (1 verse) (Variant (other wordings))
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Lotte van Olmen The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 325: "Librarii nota"
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Last modified: 2019-06-14.