Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 17261
(formerly occ/429)

	·:· δα(υὶ)δ γολιαθ, σφενδονίσας εὐστόχως,
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Type(s)	[3705] Δαυὶδ Γολίαθ σφενδονίσας εὐστόχως (2 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. 231r
Contextual information	The epigram accompanies a two-part miniature of the battle between David and Goliath and the beheading of Goliath. The first verse is written in the upper margin, the second verse in the lower one.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Image-related epigram
Subject(s)	David
Image source(s)	Stuhlfauth (1933: 322)
Bibliography	Primary A. Cutler, 1984, The Aristocratic Psalters in Byzantium, Paris: 34 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 113-114 I. Ševčenko 2000, Captions to a David cycle in the tenth-century Oxford Auct. D.4.1, in C. Scholz, G. Makris (eds.), Polypleuros Nous. Miscellanea für Peter Schreiner zu seinem 60. Geburtstag, München, 324-341: 341 Secondary G. Stuhlfauth 1933, A Greek Psalter with Byzantine Miniatures, The Art Bulletin, 15, 310-326: 323 (image: plate 13), 325
Number of verses	2
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele 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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