Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 16929
(formerly occ/37)

	ἡ δαυϊτικὴ τῶν μελισμάτων χάρις
	τῶν πνευ(ματι)κῶν ἀσμάτων ἡ τερπνότης
	πασῶν πέφυκε τῶν γραφῶν ἡδυτάτη
	λυσιτελῶς τε θυμαρὴς καὶ θελξίνους
	ἅμα μὲν ἱστορεῖ γὰρ εὖ τὰ τῶν πάλαι
	ἅμα δὲ καὶ προρρήσεων θείων γέμει
	βυθὸν προφαίνει τῶν ἀκραιφνῶν δογμάτων
	θεηγοροῦσα τὰς φρένας καλῶς τρέφει
	θυμὸν μαλάσσει, τὰς ὀρέξεις ἀμβλύνει
	εὐχῆς διδάσκει καὶ μετανοίας τρόπους
	πενθεῖν ἀσιτεῖν ἀγρυπνεῖν, τρύχειν δέμας
	καὶ πᾶν τὸ σῶζον πρακτικῶς ὑπογράφει
	διπλῆν προφάσκει τὴν ἔλευσιν τοῦ λόγου
	πῆ μὲν προσιτὴν ὡς βροτοῖς ἡνωμένου
	πράως προσηνῶς, πῆ δὲ φρικωδεστάτην
	καὶ πυρπολοῦσαν δυσμενεῖς ἄρδην πέριξ.
	ἀλλʹ ὦ προφήτα καὶ βασιλεῦ καὶ τόκου
	καὶ νοῦ προπάτορ ὡς ἔχων παρρησίαν
	λιτὴν κινοίης πρὸς τὸν ἐκ σῆς ὀσφύος
	σ(ωτῆ)ρα χ(ριστὸ)ν τὸν δότην τῶν λωιόνων
	κἀμοὶ γενέσθαι βρωτὸν ἡδὺ καὶ πόμα
	ῥύψιν τε νύκτωρ δεμνίων ἄσης πλέων
	καθημερινὸν ἀγνὸν ἐκ ψυχῆς δάκρυ
	καὶ θρῆνον οἰκτρὸν καὶ στεναγμὸν βυσσόθεν
	ὡς ἂν διʹ αὐτῶν σὺν θῶι τὰς κηλίδας
	σμήξας, κάμινον τῶν παθῶν ἀποσβέσω
	καὶ λήξεως τύχοιμι τῶν σεσωσμένων
	τάλας πενιχρὸς οἰκτρὸς ηὐτελισμένος
	φαῦλος πιναρὸς καρδίαν ἐστιγμένος
	μάρκος ταπεινὸς ἔσχατος μονοτρόπ(ων)

Type(s)	[4036] Ἡ δαυιτικὴ τῶν μελισμάτων χάρις (30 verses)
Text source	R. Stefec 2011, Anmerkungen zu weiteren Epigrammen in epigraphischer Auszeichnungsmajuskel, Byzantion, 81, 326-361: 343-344
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1078
Manuscript	OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Clarke 15 [1078]
Place in Manuscript	f. 5v-7r
Person(s)	Patron Markos (11th c.) (monachos)
Palaeographical information	Written in epigraphic majuscule.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	David Music Psalter
Bibliography	Primary T. Gaisford, 1812, Catalogus sive notitia manusciptorum qui a cel. E.D. Clarke compariti in Bibliotheca Bodleiana adversantur (vol. 1), Oxford: 59 I. Hutter, 1977, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Oxford Bodleian Library I (vol. 1), Stuttgart: 46 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: 196, 199 G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 231-232
Number of verses	30
Related occurrence(s)	[18234] Εὔχεσθε πάντες τῷ ξύσαντί γε Θεοδοσίῳ [1292] ANDROS - Mone Hagias (Zoodochou Peges) 6 [1292] (f. 217r) (5 verses) (1/30) [24561] Ἡ δαυϊτικὴ τῶν μελισμάτων χάρις [14th c.] ATHENS - Ethnike Bibliotheke tes Hellados 16 [14th c.] (f. 6v-7v) (29 verses) (29/30)
Acknowledgements	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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Occurrence 16929 (formerly occ/37)

Occurrence 16929
(formerly occ/37)