Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4397
(formerly typ/2496)

	Ἡ χεὶρ μὲν ἡ γράψασα σήπεται τάφῳ
	γραφὴ δὲ μένει πρὸς χρόνους πληρεστάτους.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Tag(s)	Completion of the book
Translation(s)	la main qui a écrit est destinée à se corrompre dans le sépulcre, mais ce qui a été écrit reste, inalteré, jusqu'à la consommation des siècles Language French Source(s) G. Cavallo, 2006, Lire à Byzance, Paris: 148
Comment	Cf. id.: 309-310.
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[25306] ἡ χεὶρ μ(ὲν) ἡ γράψασα σήπεται τάφω [1320] ATHOS - Mone Megistes Lauras Β 89 (Eustratiades 209) [1320] (f. 257r) (2 verses) [31118] ἡ χεὶρ μὲν ἡ γράψα\|σα‧ σίπεται τά\|φω [1181] ATHOS - Mone Xenophontos 1 [1181] (f. 102v) (2 verses) [16999] Η χεῖρ μὲν ἡ γράψασα. \| σήπετε τάφωι [1022] MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana B 56 sup. [1022] (f. 187r) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Lotte van Olmen The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 325: "Librarii nota"
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.