Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 3085
(formerly typ/1203)

	Ἡ δέλτος αὕτη τῆς βίβλου τῶν θαυμάτων
	πανδέκτης γὰρ ὢν τῶν μεγάλων ἐπαίνων
	μετὰ πόθου συλλεγὲν καὶ πλείστους λόγους.
	Εὔχεσθε τῷ ξύσαντι θεῖοι πατέρες
	ἄγροικος καὶ νέος ὢν τῇ ἡλικίᾳ
	(...) ποθῶν ἔγραψα ἰδίοις πόνοις
	Πέτρος ἱερεὺς τέκνον πιστὸν ἁγίων
	(...) θεοσεβοῦς ἡγουμένης
	καὶ μητρὸς Βενεδίκτας ἀνακτισάσης (?).

Text source	S. Lampros 1908, Πέτρος ἱερεὺς ὁ βιβλιογράφος, Νέος Ελληνομνήμων, 5(1), 108-111: 110
Text status	Text partially unknown
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Tag(s)	Completion of the book Entreaty (asked to readers) Self-presentation
Comment	Text of Lampros (1908: 110) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography	Primary G. de Andrés Martínez, 1967, Catálogo de los codices griegos de la Real Biblioteca de El Escorial. Códices 421-649 (vol. 3), Madrid: 241 F. Euangelatou-Notara, 1982, Σημειώματα ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων ὡς πηγὴ διὰ τὴν ἔρευναν τοῦ οἰκονομικοῦ καὶ κοινωνικοῦ βίου τοῦ Βυζαντίου ἀπὸ τοῦ 9ου αἰῶνος μέχρι τοῦ ἔτους 1204, Athens: 152-153 E. Miller, 1848, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque de l'Escurial, Paris: 499
Number of verses	9
Occurrence(s)	[18870] η δ(έλ)τος αύτ(η) τῆς βίβλου τῶν θαῦμάτων [01/09/1033-31/08/1034] EL ESCORIAL - Real Biblioteca Ω.IV.32 [01/09/1033-31/08/1034] (f. 155r) (9 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, 297: "Librarii subscr."
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