Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17260
(formerly occ/428)

	·:· δεσμῶν ὑλικῶν ἀ\|πολύων τοὺς πόδας :
	·:· μωσῆς θ(εο)ῦ τὰς πλά\|κας εἰσδεδεγμένος,
	δίδωσι ταύτας τῶ λαῶ τοῦ κ(υρίο)υ ·:·

Type(s)	[1916] Δεσμῶν ὑλικῶν ἀπολύων τοὺς πόδας (3 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1076-1125
Manuscript	BERLIN - Humboldt-Universität Bibliothek, Abteilung für christliche Archäologie und kirchliche Kunst 3807 [1076-1125]
Place in Manuscript	f. 118v
Palaeographical information	Written in Alexandrinische Auszeichnungsmajukel.
Contextual information	The epigram accompanies a miniature depicting Moses unbinding his shoes, receiving the Laws and handing them over to the people. The first two verses are read above the miniature, the third one under it.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	Moses
Bibliography	Primary A. Cutler, 1984, The Aristocratic Psalters in Byzantium, Paris: 33 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 112-113 Secondary G. Stuhlfauth 1933, A Greek Psalter with Byzantine Miniatures, The Art Bulletin, 15, 310-326: 320 (image: plate 11), 322
Number of verses	3
Acknowledgements	Transcriber(s) Floris Bernard 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.
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