Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 16928
(formerly occ/36)

	στίχοι ἡρωϊκοὶ εἰς τὸ ψαλτήριον

	δέρκεο πᾶς σοφίης πολυήρατον ὄλβον ἐχούσης
	βένθος ἐς ἄντα ἰδὼν ἐρικυδέος οἴμης κεδνῆς
	δα(υὶ)δ γὰρ μελίγηρυν ἔχειτ᾽ ἐροέσσαν ἀοιδὴν
	θελξίνοον πραπίδεσιν ἴδʹ οὔασι δώτορ’ ἐάων
	οὐδὲ γὰρ ἕν τι κέκευθεν ὀνήσιμον ἔνδοθι μοῦνον
	ἀλλὰ νύτʹ αἰολόμητιν ἀνοίγνυσι κάρτατον οἶμον
	πρῶτα γὰρ ἱστορίη πινυτὸν νόον ἔργμασι φαίνει
	ἤν ἐθέλης πολύιδριν ἔχειν νόον ἱστοριάων
	αὐτὰρ ἔπειτʹ ὀφέλει ἐνὶ ἤθεσι πᾶσιν ἐρωήν
	ἴσκει πάντα ἐόντα τάτʹ ἐσσόμενα πρό τʹ ἐόντα
	τόσσον ἄρʹ ἔπλετʹ ὄνειαρ ἐνὶ βροτέηισι γενέθληις
	ἀλλὰ κύδιστε μέγιστε μεγασθενὲς ἄφθιτε σῶτερ
	αὐτὸς ἄρʹ ἡγεμόνευε τεῶι θεράποντί γε μάρκωι
	ἀτρεκέος βιότοιο κατὰ στίβον ὡς ἀγορεύει
	πυκτίδος εὐφραδέως ἱερὸν μέλος ἐκ σέθεν αἴγλης
	δαυίδου πινυτῆ τι θεηγορίηισιν ἀρίστου
	αὐτὰρ δʹ ἀμφιέποντα δίδου περικαλλέα δῶρα
	οὐ(ρα)νὸν ἀστερόεντα καὶ ὄλβιον ἄμβροτον αὖθις
	χῶρον ἀριπρεπέα ξυνὸν οἷς ἐσάωσας ἐόντα:‒

Type(s)	[5638] Δέρκεο πᾶς σοφίης πολυήρατον ὄλβον ἐχούσης (19 verses)
Text source	R. Stefec 2011, Anmerkungen zu weiteren Epigrammen in epigraphischer Auszeichnungsmajuskel, Byzantion, 81, 326-361: 340-341
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1078
Manuscript	OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Clarke 15 [1078]
Place in Manuscript	f. 3r-5r
Person(s)	Patron Markos (11th c.) (monachos)
Palaeographical information	Written in 'epigraphic distinctive majuscule'.
Metre(s)	Dactylic hexameter
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	David Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Markos (11th c.) (monachos) Music Psalter
Image source(s)	Lake II, plate 110
Bibliography	Primary B. Crostini Lappin 2019, Perils of Travel or Joys of Heaven? Reconsidering the Travel Hypothesis for Bodleian Library, MS E. D. Clarke 15 and the Function of Diminutive Manuscripts, Manuscripta, 63(1), 63-104: 71 (image: plate 3), 71 (image: plate 4), 82-83 T. Gaisford, 1812, Catalogus sive notitia manusciptorum qui a cel. E.D. Clarke compariti in Bibliotheca Bodleiana adversantur (vol. 1), Oxford: 58 I. Hutter, 1977, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Oxford Bodleian Library I (vol. 1), Stuttgart: 32 Secondary K. Lake, S. Lake, 1934, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200. Manuscripts in Venice, Oxford and London (vol. 2), Boston: M. Lauxtermann 2012, The Perils of Travel: Mark the Monk and Bodl. E.D. Clarke 15, in F. Bernard, K. Demoen (eds.), Poetry and its Contexts in Eleventh-century Byzantium, Farnham/Burlington, 195-206: 199, 201
Number of verses	19
Acknowledgements	Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri, Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Renaat Meesters The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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Occurrence 16928 (formerly occ/36)

Occurrence 16928
(formerly occ/36)