Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5756
(formerly typ/3780)

	Ὦ Παῦλε σοφέ, τῆς οἰκουμένης ῥήτωρ,
	λύρα γνωστικὴ μυστουργοῦσα τὰ θεία,
	ἄνοιξον κἀμοὶ θύραν εἰς σωτηρίαν,
	δίδου μοι πένθος χαροποιὸν λιταῖς σου,
	ζηλοῦν σε μέντοι ἱκάνωσον ἐν τάχει
	τὸν σὸν φοιτητήν, εἰ γε θέμις καὶ τούτων,
	στοργῇ γὰρ τῇ σῇ καὶ μόνον πιεσμονὴν
	ξύω τοὺς λόγους σοὺς Θεοφύλακτος τλήμων.

Text source	DBBE
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Music Paul (apostle, saint)
Tag(s)	Address to the author Entreaty for first person Praise of the author Prayer
Translation(s)	Oh wise Paul, rhetor of the inhabited world the spiritual lyre singing divine words Language English Source(s) K. Demoen, R. Ricceri, M. Tomadaki 2021, Paul in Byzantine Book Epigrams, in M. Cacouros, J. Sautel (eds.), Des cahiers à l'histoire de la culture à Byzance. Hommage à Paul Canart, codicologue (1927-2017), Leuven / Paris / Bristol, 117-134: 128 Comment Partial translation: vv. 1-2
Comment	The last line of the epigram was altered in various manuscripts to accommodate the name of the scribes.
Bibliography	Primary K. Demoen, R. Ricceri, M. Tomadaki 2021, Paul in Byzantine Book Epigrams, in M. Cacouros, J. Sautel (eds.), Des cahiers à l'histoire de la culture à Byzance. Hommage à Paul Canart, codicologue (1927-2017), Leuven / Paris / Bristol, 117-134: 128 S. Lucà 2009, Sulla sottoscrizione in versi del Vat. gr. 2000 (ff. 1-154), in C. Braidotti, E. Dettori, E. Lanzillotta (eds.), Οὐ πᾶν ἐφήμερον. Scritti in memoria di Roberto Pretagostini, Rome, 275-308: 296-297 H. von Soden, 1902, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte. Untersuchungen. Die Textzeuge (vol. 1.1), Berlin: 385-386
Number of verses	8
Occurrence(s)	[23113] Ὦ παῦλε σοφὲ· τῆς οἰκουμένης ῥήτωρ [1101-1125] EL ESCORIAL - Real Biblioteca Τ.III.12 [1101-1125] (f. 178v) (8 verses) [23114] ὦ παῦλε σοφὲ τ(ῆς) οἰκουμέν(ης) ῥήτωρ [1201-1225] NAPLES - Biblioteca Nazionale - gr. II A 7 [1201-1225] (f. 95v) (8 verses) [23112] ὦ παῦλε σοφὲ τῆς οἰκουμέ\|νης ῥήτωρ [10th-11th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 1971 [10th-11th c.] (f. 208v) (8 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 890: "Librarii subscr. in Pauli epistulas"
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