Occurrence 16931 (formerly occ/38) « Previous ms. occ. Next ms. occ. » ༶ ἴσως βλέπων τις τήνδε τὴν σοφὴν βίβλ(ον): πολυτελῶς μὲν ἐντὸς ἠγλαισμένην· παγκοσμίως δʹ ἔξωθεν ὡραισμένην; ἐγκαλέσειε τῶι πόθω τετευχότι· μάλιστα δʹ ὄντι καὶ μοναστῆ τὸν τρόπον· ὡς δὴ περιττὰ ταῦτα κακίζειν θέλων· τί γὰρ τυχὸν φράσειε χρυσὸς εἰς βίον· || καὶ λεπτότητες ὑμένων καὶ γραμμάτων· καὶ χρυσομορφόγραφος αὐτῶν ἰδέα· ἐξ ἀργύρου τὲ κλεῖθρα κεχρυσωμένα· καὶ φαιδρόμορφον ἄμφιον τοῦ βιβλίου. ὄνησιν εἰσφέροιεν εἰς ἀσκουμένους· ἀλλʹ ἄν περ ἦ τέλειος ὃς ταῦτα βλέπει, οὐ στήσετέ γε μέχρι τῶν ὁρωμένων· οὐδ’ εγχρονίσει τῆ κάτω θεωρία· || κἀν οὐκ ἀπεικὸς τὸν μέγαν ὑμνογράφ(ον)· τὸν πάνσοφον νοῦν καὶ καθωραισμένον· καὶ τοῖσδε κοσμεῖν τοῖς ὑλικοῖς ἐκ πόθ(ου)· ἀλλʹ ἧ μὲν ἐχρῆν θαυμάσει και τὰς ὕλας· ὡς κτίσμα καὶ ποίημα τοῦ παντεργάτου· ὃς πάντα ποιεῖ πανσθενῶς καῖ πανσόφ(ως): ἄργυρον ἐκ γῆς ὑμένας δʹ ἐκ ποιμνίων· ἐκ δʹ αὖ γε σηρῶν καῖ βαφῆς θαλαττίας, || ὕφασμα λαμπρόμορφον ἠγλαισμένον· ὅλον δὲ τὸν νοῦν ἐμβαθύνας τοις ἔσω· τοῦς ψυχοκερδεῖς θηράσω μόνον λόγους· καὶ ταῖς προσευχαῖς ἐνδιατρίψει πλέον, τρυγῶν ἀληθῶς ψυχικὴν σ(ωτη)ρίαν· καῖ τῆν ἄνω φέρουσαν ἀπλανῆ τρίβον, εὐθυβόλωι μάλιστα βαδίζων τάχει ༶ Type(s) [4032] Ἴσως βλέπων τις τήνδε τὴν σοφὴν βίβλον (30 verses) Text source DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript) Text status Text completely known Date 1078 Manuscript OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Clarke 15 [1078] Place in Manuscript f. 7v-9r Person(s) Patron Markos (11th c.) (monachos) Palaeographical information Written in epigraphic majuscule. Metre(s) Dodecasyllable Genre(s) Scribe-related epigram Subject(s) Psalter Bibliography Primary K. Bentein, K. Demoen 2012, The Reader in Eleventh-Century Book Epigrams, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 69-88: 84-87 B. Crostini Lappin 2019, Perils of Travel or Joys of Heaven? Reconsidering the Travel Hypothesis for Bodleian Library, MS E. D. Clarke 15 and the Function of Diminutive Manuscripts, Manuscripta, 63(1), 63-104: 88 T. Gaisford, 1812, Catalogus sive notitia manusciptorum qui a cel. E.D. Clarke compariti in Bibliotheca Bodleiana adversantur (vol. 1), Oxford: 59-60 M. Lauxtermann 2012, The Perils of Travel: Mark the Monk and Bodl. E.D. Clarke 15, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 195-206: 201-202 G. Parpulov 2004, Toward a history of Byzantine Psalters, Chicago: 183-184 R. Stefec 2011, Anmerkungen zu weiteren Epigrammen in epigraphischer Auszeichnungsmajuskel, Byzantion, 81, 326-361: 345-346 display 3 more references (6 in total) hide 3 references (6 in total) Secondary I. Hutter, 1977, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Oxford Bodleian Library I (vol. 1), Stuttgart: 46-47 Number of verses 30 Acknowledgements Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete. Permalink http://dev.dbbe.ugent.be/occurrences/16931 Last modified: 2021-04-12. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
