Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 4980
(formerly typ/3036)

	Ἰωάννην σκέπε με τὸν Λιθαργίτην
	ὁ π(...)κη πλη(...)σας (...) ταύτην τὴν βίβλον
	τ(...) παρθενικὴ τῆς Θεοτόκου χάρις
	πολλῶν (...) ὠ φέρει(...) τῶν κλύδων.

Text source	S. Kotzabassi 2002, Aristotles Organon and Its Byzantine Commentators, The Princeton University Library Chronicle, 64(1), 51-62: 60
Text status	Text partially unknown
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Ioannes Lithargites (14th c.) - PLP: VI.14917
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Ioannes Lithargites (14th c.) - PLP: VI.14917 Theotokos
Tag(s)	Entreaty for first person Prayer
Translation(s)	[Please] protect me, John the Lithargitis / the grace of the Virgin Mother of the Lord ... this book ... . Language English Source(s) S. Kotzabassi 2002, Aristotles Organon and Its Byzantine Commentators, The Princeton University Library Chronicle, 64(1), 51-62: 60
Comment	Text of Kotzabassi (2002: 60) modified by DBBE.
Bibliography	Primary S. Kotzabassi, N. Patterson Ševčenko, D. Skemer, 2010, Greek manuscripts at Princeton, Sixth to Nineteenth Century: A Descriptive Catalogue, Princeton: 148
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[21711] Ἰωάννην σκέπε μαι τὸν λιθαργίτην [1376-1400] PRINCETON - University Library 173 [1251-1300] ((gen.) inside of the back board) (4 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 2011, 231: "Possessoris libri invocatio"
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