Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

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Type 2189
(formerly typ/239)

	Εἴληφε τέλος βίβλος ἥδε σὺν πόθῳ
	χειρὶ γραφεῖσα τοῦ πανευτελεστάτου
	κλήσει δὲ Θωμὰ, βαθμίδος διακόνων.
	Ἅπαντες οὖν βλέποντες αὐτὴν τὴν βίβλον
	εὐχὴν ἐπισάξατε τῷ γεγραφότι
	καὶ ἄφεσιν ἕξετε τῶν ἐπταισμένων
	καὶ μακαρισμὸν ἐκ πόθου νείματέ μοι.

Text source	C. Constantinides, R. Browning, 1993, Dated Greek Manuscripts from Cyprus to the year 1570, Washington: 95
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Thomas (12th c.) - VGH: 150.E (diakonos, prosmonarios)
Tag(s)	Address to the reader Completion of the book Entreaty (asked to readers) Entreaty for first person Self-presentation
Comment	Text of Constantinides-Browning (1993: 95) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography	Primary C. De Boor, 1897, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin (vol. 2), Berlin: 159 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: 217 K. Lake, S. Lake, 1936, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200. Manuscripts in Paris, part II, Oxford, Berlin, Vienna and Jerusalem (vol. 5), Boston: 17
Number of verses	7
Occurrence(s)	[17613] Ἤλιφε τέλος βίβλος ϊδε σὺν πόθω [1193] KRAKóW - Biblioteka Jagiellońska graec. 1°.51 (287) (olim Berlin, Staatsbibliothek) [1193] (f. 272v) (7 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, 187: "Librarii subscr. in evangelia"
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