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Occurrence 17427
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	Ἐνταῦθα τὴν θέλγουσαν· εἰκότως λύραν:
	Κινῶν τέλως· συγκινεῖ \| καὶ τοὺς λιθους·
	Ὅθεν πλάνος σίγησον· ὀρφέος λύρα·
	Πόνοις \| ἰωάννης γὰρ· ἥρμωσε ξένην·
	Καθημεροῦσαν· τὴν λιθότροπ(ον) φύσιν:-

Type(s)	[1945] Ἐνταῦθα τὴν θέλγουσαν εἰκότως λύραν (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1151-1200
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Barb. gr. 520 [1151-1200]
Place in Manuscript	f. 3r
Palaeographical information	The epigram is written in minuscule. The initials of each vese are highlighted in red.
Contextual information	This is the third poem in a series of four epigrams on the Evangelists.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Music Orpheus
Image source(s)	http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de/community/modules/papyri/?zoom=48&left=-68&top=-570&site=INTF&image=30163/0/90/10/13
Bibliography	Primary F. Bernard 2018, Rhythm in the Byzantine Dodecasyllable: Practices and Perceptions, in A. Rhoby, N. Zagklas (eds.), Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry. Texts and Contexts, Turnhout, 13-40: 33 E. Follieri 1956, Epigrammi sugli Evangelisti dai codici Barberiniani greci 352 e 520, Bollettino della Badia Greca di Grottaferrata (BBGG), 10, 61-156: 153 I. Hutter, 2022, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Corpus der Italogriechischen dekorierten Handschriften der Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (vol. 6.2), Stuttgart: 933 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 369-370 Secondary D. Pieralisi, 1836, Inventarium codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Barberinae (vol. 2), Vatican City: 181-182
Number of verses	5
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Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the 'Institut für Neutestamentliche Textforschung'. Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki, Eleonora Lauro Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri, Floris Bernard, Eleonora Lauro The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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