Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5743
(formerly typ/3771)

	Σῷζοις φυλάττων ὡς Θεὸς σωτήρ, Λόγε,
	σὸν οἰκέτην μέν, πατέρα δὲ μου φίλον,
	Σάβα ταπεινοῦ σῶν ὁμώνυμον φίλων:‒

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Markos (11th c.) (monachos)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33)
Tag(s)	Prayer
Translation(s)	As God the Saviour, may you, Christ, save and protect your servant and my dear father, the namesake of your friends of the humble Sabas [that is, the Sabaites]. Language English Source(s) M. Lauxtermann 2012, The Perils of Travel: Mark the Monk and Bodl. E.D. Clarke 15, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 195-206: 204
Bibliography	Primary G. Parpulov 2004, Toward a history of Byzantine Psalters, Chicago: 184-185 Bibliography category to be determined M. Lauxtermann 2012, The Perils of Travel: Mark the Monk and Bodl. E.D. Clarke 15, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 195-206: 204-205
Number of verses	3
Occurrence(s)	[23102] Σῷζοις φυλάττων ὡς Θεὸς σωτήρ, Λόγε [1078] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Clarke 15 [1078] (f. 130r) (3 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Cristina Cocola, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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Last modified: 2019-11-29.