Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5782
(formerly typ/3800)

	Ὄντως ὁποῖα τοῖς ἀριστεῦσι φίλα
	ὁ Θηκαρᾶς τέτευχας ἀριστοτρόπως.

Text source	P. Skaltsis (ed.), 2008, Θηκαρᾶς. Στίχοι εἰς τοὺς θείους Ὕμνους. Διονυσίου καὶ Μητροφάνους, Περὶ τῶν Ὕμνων. Θηκαρᾶ Μοναχοῦ, Λόγοι περὶ πίστεως, Ἑρμηνεία τῶν Ὕμνων, ̔Ωρολόγιον τῶν θείων Ὕμνων, Ἀσκητικὴ Ἀκολουθία, Χαροποιὰ Πένθη. Θεοδούλου Μοναχοῦ, Διήγησις καὶ Ἀνθολόγιον περὶ τῶν Ὕμνων, Mount Athos: 4
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Metrophanes (monachos)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Hymnography Thekaras
Tag(s)	Praise of the author Reference to content of the book
Comment	The poem also occurs in the 16th-century manuscript Athens, Mouseio Benaki, Kuriaze 13 (f. 262r) and the 17th-century manuscript Athos, Mone Megistes Lauras Λ 59.
Bibliography	Primary S. Eustratiades, S. Lauriotes, 1925, Catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts in the Library of the Laura on Mount Athos, Cambridge: 274 E. Lappa-Zizica, M. Rizou-Kouroupou, 1991, Κατάλογος ἑλληνικῶν χειρογράφων τοῦ Μουσείου Μπενάκη (10ος-16ος αἰ.), Athens: 68
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[32222] Θείων ὕμνων ἔρωτες οἷς εὐχῆς μέλος [1451-1500] ATHOS - Mone Xenophontos 206 [1450-1500] (f. 363r-363v -- (alt.) f. 359r-359v) (? verses) [23137] NA [1351-1375] SOFIA - Centar I Dujcev D. gr. 1 [1351-1375] (f. 284r) (? verses)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki 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.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 534: "Metrophanes, In Thecaram"
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