Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 28655

	Χριστέ μου, σῶσον Βασίλειον σὸν δοῦλον·
	καὶ σὺ ἑρμηνεὺς τοῦ παρόντος βιβλίου
	γνώρισον αὐτῷ τὸ λέγειν τε καὶ γράφειν,
	ὡς χρυσορήμων καὶ μέγας μυστολέκτης.

Title(s)	Librarii precatio
Text source	DBBE (based on occurrence χ(ριστ)έ μου σῶσον βασίλ(ειον) σὸν δούλον)
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) John Chrysostom (saint)
Tag(s)	Entreaty for first person Praise of the author Prayer
Bibliography
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[28656] χ(ριστ)έ μου σῶσον βασίλ(ειον) σὸν δούλον [13th c.] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 701 [9th-10th c.] (f. 142v) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Information on the occurrence courtesy of Georgi Parpulov. Creator(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Grigory Vorobyev The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification
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Last modified: 2026-06-11.