Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4428
(formerly typ/2531)

Ἡ δόξα Χριστῷ τῷ συνεργῷ τοῦ τέλους.
Text source K. Giannikou 2026, Formulaic Language in Byzantine Book Epigrams: A Typology Grounded in Ritually-Charged Pragmatic Functions, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS)(66.1), 1-41: 31
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33)
Tag(s) Prayer
Translation(s) Glory to Christ, who collaborated in the completion.
Language
English
Source(s)
K. Giannikou 2026, Formulaic Language in Byzantine Book Epigrams: A Typology Grounded in Ritually-Charged Pragmatic Functions, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies (GRBS)(66.1), 1-41: 31
Translator(s)
Kyriaki Giannikou
Comment
For the purposes of the paper, this translation is as literal as possible.
Bibliography

Bibliography category to be determined

C. De Stefani 2014, The end of the "Nonnian School", in K. Spanoudakis (ed.), Nonnus of Panopolis in Context: Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity with a Section on Nonnus and the Modern World, Berlin, 375-402: 391
Number of verses 1
Occurrence(s)
Related type(s) [2923] Δόξα τῷ Θεῷ τῷ συνεργῷ τοῦ τέλους (1 verse) (Variant (other wordings))
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Kyriaki Giannikou

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 299: "Librarii invocatio"
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Last modified: 2026-06-12.
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