Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 2645
(formerly typ/747)

	βέλτιστον οὐδὲν ἢ καλῶν γνῶσις λόγων
	γένος γὰρ ἡμῶν ἡ λόγων βρῶσις τρέφει
	δῶρον βροτοῖς νέμουσα τὴν πανδαισίαν
	ἐν ᾗ ποθεινὸς τοῖς βροτοῖς ἑστιάτωρ
	ὀ παμμέγιστος Βασίλειος τυγχάνει.

Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Basil the Great (330-379) (episkopos of Kaisareia < Cappadocia)
Tag(s)	Completion of the book
Comment	Vassis has the incipit 'Βέλτιστον οὐδὲν ἢ γραφῆς τέλος <πέλει>', which, according to Rudberg (1961: 63) is written by another hand and is not part of this epigram.
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined A. Kominis, 1988, Πατμιακὴ βιβλιοθήκη ἤτοι νέος κατάλογος τῶν χειρογράφων κωδίκων τῆς Ἱερᾶς Μονῆς Ἁγίου Ἰωάννου τοῦ Θεολόγου, Athens: 57 S. Rudberg 1961, Annotations historiques et adscripta métriques contenus dans les manuscrits de Basile de Césarée, Scriptorium, 15, 61-67: 63 I. Sakkelion, 1890, Πατμιακὴ Βιβλιοθήκη, Athens: 11
Number of verses	5
Occurrence(s)	[17067] βέλτιστον οὐδὲν ἢ καλῶν γνῶσις <λόγων> [11th-13th c.] PATMOS - Mone tou Hagiou Ioannou tou Theologou 22 [11th-13th c.] (f. 305v) (5 verses)
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 103: "Librarii subscr. in opera s. Basilii Magni"
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