Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4926
(formerly typ/2985)

	Ἀπολαβοῦσα τοῦ ξύσαι αὑτ᾽ ἡ βίβλος
	[πό]σου τε καὶ ποίου δῆλον μηνὸς οὖσα·
	ἐτοῦντος ἀπό κτήσεως κόσμου ἔτους
	[ἐν] τοῖς χιλίοις τοῖς ἑκατὸν ἐξάκις
	[τ]ῇ τρὶς δέκαδος ἅμα ἐννάτη ῥίθμου
	καὶ τῆς ἰνδίκτου ἐννάτης ἱσταμένης,
	[ἀ]πριλλίου φῶ τετράδι καὶ δεκάδι,
	ὥρα δὲ πρώτη τῆς τρίτης μὲν ἡμέρας·
	χειρὶ ξυσθεῖσα τοῦ ἐπταικότος πάνυ
	Νικηφόρου τε καὶ τάξει ζακόρου,
	αἰτὴν αἰτοῦντος τυχόντων ἐν ταύτῃ ὅσων
	εὐχὴν δὲ δρᾶν περ εὐμενεῖσθαί τε τὸ θεῖον,
	[ὅπ]ως λύσιν λάβειεν τῶν πολλῶν ἐγκλημάτων.

Text source	P. Eleuteri, 1993, I manoscriti greci della biblioteca Palatina di Parma, Milano: 24
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Nikephoros (12th c.) - VGH: 341.I (zakoros)
Tag(s)	Address to the reader Colophon Completion of the book Date Entreaty (asked to readers) Entreaty for first person Self-presentation
Comment	Text of Eleuteri (1993: 24) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography	Primary E. Martini, 1893, Catalogo di manoscritti greci esistenti nelle biblioteche italiane (vol. 1.1), Milan: 164
Number of verses	13
Occurrence(s)	[21608] ἀπολαβοῦσα τοῦ ξύσαι αὑτ' ἡ βίβλος [1131] PARMA - Biblioteca Palatina - palat. 16 [1131] (f. 202v) (13 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, 69: "Librarii subscr."
Permalink	http://dev.dbbe.ugent.be/types/4926

Last modified: 2026-01-19.