Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

This is a test environment.

Type 4392
(formerly typ/2489)

	Πονῶν μογῶν ἄμετρα, ταύτην τὴν βίβλον
	τέλει δέδωκα τοῦ Θεοῦ νενευκότος·
	γεννῶσι δόξαν τοῖς φιλοῦσιν οἱ πόνοι,
	τοῖς δ' αὖ ἀεργοῖς, μῶμον ἡ ῥαθυμία.

Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Tag(s)	(Spiritual) advice to the reader Completion of the book
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined E. Gamillscheg 1983, Bemerkungen zu Handschriftensubskriptionen, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik (JÖB), 33, 255-265: 256 E. Martini, D. Bassi, 1906, Catalogus codicum graecorum Bibliothecae Ambrosianae (vol. 2), Milan: 795 H. Stevenson, 1885, Codices manuscripti Palatini Graeci, Rome: 5 C. Van de Vorst 1906, Die griechischen Handschriften der Bibliotheca Rossiana, Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, 23, 492-508, 537-550: 507
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[20763] Πονῶν μογῶν ἄμετρα, ταύτην τὴν βίβλον [15th c.] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana Q 88 sup. [15th c.] (f. 277r) (4 verses) [17699] Πονῶν, μογῶν ἄμετρα, ταύτην τὴν βίβλον [1335-1336] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Palat. gr. 7 [1335-1336] (f. 198r) (6 verses) [19040] Πονῶν μογῶν ἄμετρα ταύτην τὴν βίβλον [15th c.] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Ross. 986 (olim XI.136) [1426-1500] (f. 378v) (4 verses) [22353] πονῶν μογῶν ἄμετρα ταύτην τὴν βίβλον [13th c.] VENICE - Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - gr. Z. 613 (coll. 868) [13th c.] (f. 295r) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 639: "Librarii subscr."
Permalink	http://dev.dbbe.ugent.be/types/4392

Last modified: 2026-01-19.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.