Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 19553
(formerly occ/3057)

	στίχ(οι)

	Κινῶν ὁ δα(υι)δ ἐμμελῶς τ(ὴν) \| κινύραν·
	Τὸ τὸν σαοὺλ ἔφυγε πν(εύμ)α \| συστρέφον·
	Ἄδοντες ἡμεῖς ψαλμι\|κωτάτους λόγους;
	Ἐχθρῶν νοητῶν συμπα\|τοῦμεν τὰς κάρας·
	Καὶ τῷ τάδε γράψαντι \| τῶν ὀφλημάτων,
	λύσιν παράσχου δη\|\|μιουργὲ τῶν ὅλων:-

Type(s)	[3628] Κινῶν ὁ Δαυὶδ ἐμμελῶς τὴν κινύραν (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1101-1125
Manuscript	OXFORD - Christ Church College 42 [1101-1125]
Place in Manuscript	f. 253r-253v
Palaeographical information	Title and initial letters of each line in red ink.
Contextual information	The epigram is written at the end of Psalm 151.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Reader-related epigram Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	David Music Saul
Image source(s)	https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/0e88484c-81cd-4301-ae48-3f2380a3b150/surfaces/2d708bff-dca8-4ccd-817b-472d54db9b15/ https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/0e88484c-81cd-4301-ae48-3f2380a3b150/surfaces/131023b3-bfd7-45e2-a903-e3bfa7b68683/
Bibliography	Primary A. Acconcia Longo 2016, Il «Poema» di introduzione del Salterio Vat. gr. 752, in B. Crostini Lappin, G. Peers (eds.), A Book of Psalms from Eleventh-century Byzantium: The Complex of Texts and Images in Vat. Gr. 752, Vatican City, 157-178: 167 I. Hutter, 1993, Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Oxford Christ Church (vol. 4), Stuttgart: 60 G. Kitchin, 1867, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum qui in Bibliotheca Aedis Christi apud Oxonienses adservantur, Oxford: 22 G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 221
Number of verses	6
Related occurrence(s)	[16980] ὁ πάντα κόσμον ἐν λόγω κτίσας πάλ(ιν) [01/09/1053-31/08/1054] JERUSALEM - Patriarchike Bibliotheke - Panaghiou Taphou 53 [01/09/1053-31/08/1054] (f. 13r-14r) (22 verses) (4/6) [17485] ὁ πάντα κόσμον ἐν \| λόγω κτίσας πάλιν [1058] VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Vat. gr. 752 [1058-1059] (f. 17r-17v) (22 verses) (4/6)
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Delphine Nachtergaele Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, Rachele Ricceri, Raf Praet, 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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