Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Type 6833
(formerly typ/4730)

	Ὁρῶν, θεατά, τὴν γραφὴν τῆς πυκτίδος
	τὸν Ἀμβρόσιον ἐννόει μοι γραφέα
	μονῆς μοναστὴν εὐαγοῦς Χορταΐτου·
	οὗ χεὶρ γραφὶς ἔγραψε, πλὴν ἀλλ' ἐντρόμως
	ἐξ ἀρθρίτιδος, φεῦ, καμοῦσα χειράγρας.
	Ἔγραψεν οὖν ἔγραψεν εὐκλεεῖς λόγους,
	ψυχῆς ἐναργῶς εὐρύθμου μελωδίας,
	ἃς πνευματοκρότητος ἤθροισε λύρα
	γαληνιῶσα τὴν παθῶν τρικυμίαν,
	ὡς λύρα Δαυὶδ τοῦ Σαοὺλ πάθος πάλαι.
	Ἀλλὰ τὸ τέρμα προβλέπων τοῦ βιβλίου
	εὐχαῖς ἀμείβου τὸν γεγραφότα, φίλος.

Text source	N. Wilson 2001, The Peckover Codex of Theodore Studites, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 94(1), 268-271: 269
Text status	Text completely known
Editorial status	Not a critical text
Genre(s)	Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Person(s)	Poet Ambrosios of the Chortaites Monastery < Thessaloniki < Makedonia < Greece (12th c.) - VGH: 15.C (grapheus, monastes)
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Subject(s)	Ambrosios of the Chortaites Monastery < Thessaloniki < Makedonia < Greece (12th c.) - VGH: 15.C (grapheus, monastes) David Music Saul
Tag(s)	Address to the reader Colophon Complaint Completion of the book Entreaty (asked to readers) Self-presentation Spiritual value of the book
Comment	This epigram recalls the features and imagery of man Psalter epigrams.
Bibliography
Number of verses	12
Occurrence(s)	[25635] ὁρῶν, θεατά, τὴν γραφὴν τῆς πυκτίδος [12th c.] WISBECH - Peckover House 196 (4.4.1949) [12th c.] (f. 181r) (12 verses)
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
Identification	Vassis ICB 2005, 548: "Librarii subscr."
Permalink	http://dev.dbbe.ugent.be/types/6833

Last modified: 2026-01-19.