Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24351
(formerly occ/8312)

	Στίχ(οι) ἴαμβοι

	Δα(υὶ)δ μελωδέοντι τῆς ἐκκλησίας·
	ὃς τ(ῆ) πρὸ(ς) \| αὐτὸν· ἐκπλαγεὶς τραγωδ(ίη)·
	ζωΐων φύσ(εις) θέλγοντ(ά) \| π(ως) κ(αὶ) δένδερον·
	ἀλλʹ ὄρφεα κρούοντα θείην πι\|κτίδα·
	θεὸν σέβοντ(α) δ' ον πάροιθεν ἠγνόουν· \|
	τὸ καινὸν ἆσμα ποῖος ἔψεται νόος·
	ὀρφία τοῦ\|τον· οὐ τῶν ἔξω προσφράσοι·
	ὡς οἴα τ(οῖς) \| μύθ(η)σιν ἐξὑφασμένα·
	ἧς τοῖς μέλε\|σσιν· ἔσπετ εθνέων γένη ༶

Type(s)	[1895] Δαυὶδ μελῳδέοντι τῆς ἐκκλησίας (9 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1101-1150
Manuscript	ATHOS - Mone Dionysiou 65 [1101-1150]
Place in Manuscript	f. 10v
Palaeographical information	The title and the initial letter are in red ink. The text is written in prose but the end of all verses is marked by punctuation signs.
Contextual information	The epigram is the third in a series of three poems on David, all inscribed in an ornamental circle.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	David Music Orpheus Psalter
Bibliography	Primary G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 221
Number of verses	9
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Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the monk Gabriel (Mone Dionysiou). Creator(s) Rachele Ricceri Transcriber(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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