Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5654
(formerly typ/3707)

	Ἔμπρακτον ἀσκῶν τὴν ἀνάγνωσιν, φίλε,
	μέμνησο τοῦ γράψαντος ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ.

Text source	S. Mercati 1970, Intorno ai versi sugli otto echi e sui quattro Evangelisti contenuti nel codice del Monte Athos 4279 (Iviron 159) del secolo XV, in S. Mercati (ed.), Collectanea Byzantina (vol. 1), Bari, 626-636: 633
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Tag(s)	Address to the reader Entreaty (asked to readers) Self-presentation
Bibliography	Primary B. De Montfaucon, 1708, Palaeographia graeca sive de ortu et progressu literarum graecarum, Paris: 48, 286
Number of verses	2
Occurrence(s)	[17118] Ἔμπρακτον ἀσκῶν τὴν ἀνάγνωσιν φίλε [1000] PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 1085 [1000] (f. 272v) (2 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Cristina Cocola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 223: "Librarii subscr."
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.