Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 5730
(formerly typ/3757)

	Ανανεανες τῶν πταισμάτων ἐκείνου
	τοῦ γράψαντος τήνδε τὴν νέαν βίβλον
	υἱοῦ Νικολάου τε καὶ ἱερέως
	Κολυμβᾶ τοῦ ἐπίκλην καὶ πρωτοψάλτου.

Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Scribe-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Stephanos Kolymbas (15th c.) - RGK: III.578 - VGH: 403.F - PLP: V.11994 (protopsaltes)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Tag(s)	Completion of the book Doxology
Comment	ανανεανες is one of the apechemata of the Byzantine Music and it means ἄναξ [ναὶ] ἄνες. On its interpretation, see the so-called Hagiopolites text, ed. Raasted (1983: 11).
Bibliography	Bibliography category to be determined E. Martini, 1902, Catalogo di manoscritti greci esistenti nelle biblioteche italiane (vol. 2), Milan: 80 J. Raasted, 1983, The hagiopolites: a Byzantine treatise on musical theory, Copenhagen: 11
Number of verses	4
Occurrence(s)	[23052] ανανεανες τῶν πταισμάτων ἐκείνου [13th-14th c.] ROME - Biblioteca Vallicelliana C 97.II (Martini 47) [13th-14th c.] (f. 73r) (4 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Julián Bértola The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 42: "Librarii subscr."
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Last modified: 2026-01-19.