Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5213
(formerly typ/3261)

Γλυκὺ τὸ γράφειν βιβλίου τέλος ἅπαν·
Χριστέ, παντάναξ τῶν καλῶν ἡ ἀκρότης,
πρεσβείαις τῆς σὲ τεκούσης τῷ γράψαντι
πάρασχε λύσιν ἀμπλακημάτων.
Text source C. Constantinides, R. Browning, 1993, Dated Greek Manuscripts from Cyprus to the year 1570, Washington: 72
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)
Translation(s) It is sweet to write every end of a book:
Christ, summit of every good work,
with the intercessions of She who brought you forth,
may you grant to the scribe the remission of the sins.
Language
English
Source(s)
F. Valerio 2022, A Short History of the Greek Colophon from the Beginnings to Modern Times, Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 8(1), 19-72: 66
Comment Text of Constantinides, Browning (1993: 72) modified by DBBE.
As preserved in cod. Par. BnF gr. 1531, f. 309v, the last verse contains ten syllables.
Bibliography

Primary

F. Valerio 2022, A Short History of the Greek Colophon from the Beginnings to Modern Times, Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin, 8(1), 19-72: 66
Number of verses 4
Occurrence(s) [22013] γλυκὺ τὸ γράφειν βιβλίου | τέλος ἄπαν [April 1112]
PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1531 [April 1112] (f. 309v)
(4 verses)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Lev Shadrin, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 121: "Librarii nota"
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