Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21156
(formerly occ/4887)

	Δα(υὶ)δ μελωδέοντι τ(ῆς) ἐκκλησίας:
	ὅστις πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐκπλαγεῖς τραγωδίη:
	ζώων φύσις θέλγοντα που (καὶ) δενδρέων,
	ἀλλʹ ὀρφόα κρούοντα θύ(ειν) πτυκτίδα:
	θεὸν σέβοντα ὂν πάροιθεν ἠγνόουν,
	τὸ καιν(ὸν) ἅσμα ποῖοι ἔψεται νόος:
	ὀρφέα τοῦτον· οὐ τὸν ἔξω προσφράσοι,
	ὡς οἷα τοῖς μύθοισιν ἐξυφασμ(έν)α:
	ἧς τοῖς μέλεσιν ἐπ' ἓτʹ θνέων γένη.

Type(s)	[1895] Δαυὶδ μελῳδέοντι τῆς ἐκκλησίας (9 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1351-1450
Manuscript	MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana H 60 sup. [13th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 1r
Palaeographical information	Written by a later reader in two columns, to be read horizontally. Initial written in red ink.
Contextual information	Written at the beginning of the manuscript, together with other epigrams.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	David Music Orpheus Psalter
Comment	Verses are displayed in an unusual order.
Bibliography	Primary E. Martini, D. Bassi, 1906, Catalogus codicum graecorum Bibliothecae Ambrosianae (vol. 1), Milan: 531 G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 221 Secondary 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: 160
Number of verses	9
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Renaat Meesters Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, 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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