Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6448
(formerly typ/4401)

Τῷ ξύσαντι δούλῳ τήνδε τὴν βίβλον,
Ἀρσενίῳ ἀδρανεῖ καὶ τρισαθλίῳ,
σχῆμα μονάζων, τἀληθὲς φορολόγῳ,
ὦ ἄναξ πάντων, νέμε τοίας δεήσεις.
Text source E. Follieri 1979, Due codici greci già Cassinesi oggi alla Biblioteca Vaticana: gli ottob. gr. 250 e 251, in Palaeographica diplomatica et archivistica: studi in onore di Giulio Battelli, Rome, 159-221: 174
Text status Text completely known
Editorial status Not a critical text
Genre(s) Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s) Dodecasyllable
Subject(s) Arsenios (11th c.) (phorologos)
Tag(s)
Translation(s) Al servo che ha scritto questo libro,
Arsenio, debole e tre volte misero,
di abito monaco, ma in verità esattore,
o sovrano dell'universo, accorda tali preghiere.
Language
Italian
Source(s)
E. Follieri 1979, Due codici greci già Cassinesi oggi alla Biblioteca Vaticana: gli ottob. gr. 250 e 251, in Palaeographica diplomatica et archivistica: studi in onore di Giulio Battelli, Rome, 159-221: 174
Bibliography

Primary

E. Follieri 1973, Ciriaco ὁ μελαῖος, in Zetesis. Album amicorum door vrienden en collega's aangeboden aan Prof. Dr. E. de Strycker ter gelegenheid van zijn 65e verjaardag, Antwerpen, 502-528: 507
Number of verses 4
Occurrence(s) [24668] Τῶ ξύσαντι δούλω τήν|δε τὴν βίβλον [991-1000]
MONTECASSINO - Biblioteca della Badia 431 [991-1000] (f. 78r)
(4 verses)
Acknowledgements
Contributor(s)
Cristina Cocola, Sarah-Helena Van den Brande, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout

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Identification Vassis ICB 2005, 816: "Librarii subscr."
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