Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5072
(formerly typ/3129)

	Κριτά μου δικαιώτατε, θεὲ τῷ σῷ ἐλέει,
	ὅταν καθήσῃς ὡς κριτῆς, κρίνε τὴν οἰκουμένην,
	ῥῦσαι με τὸν ἀνάξιον ἐκ πυρὸς τῆς γεέννης,
	σὸν δοῦλον εὐτελέστατον Ἰωσὴφ μελενδύτην.

Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Decapentasyllable
Subject(s)	Gehenna Ioseph Melendytes (13th c.) - RGK: III.348 - VGH: 220.J - PLP: IV.9012 - PBE: - PBW: - PMBZ: (monachos) Last Judgment
Tag(s)	Colophon Entreaty for first person Prayer Repentance Self-presentation
Bibliography	Primary C. Stavrakos 2020, The church of Sts Theodoroi (formerly St Kournatos) in Myrtia, Laconia, and its inscriptions, in M. Lauxtermann, I. Toth (eds.), Inscribing Texts in Byzantium: Continuities and Transformations, Abingdon, 347-364: 352 A. Turyn, 1972, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Italy. Text (vol. 1), Urbana: 97
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[21813] Κριτά μου δικαιώτατε, θεὲ τῶ σῶ ἐλέει [1300] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 2111 [1300] (f. 13v) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Cristina Cocola - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: , Anne-Sophie Rouckhout - RGK: - VGH: - PBE: - PBW: - PLP: - PMBZ: The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 419: "Librarii subscr."
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Last modified: 2023-06-12.