Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21158
(formerly occ/4891)

	Ὥσπερ τὸ πν(εῦμ)α τὸν σαοὺλ τὸ συμπνίγον,
	δα(υὶ)δ διὥκη τῆ βοῆ τῆς κινύρας:
	οὕτως (καὶ) νῦν ἡ φάλαγξ τῶν δαιμόν(ων),
	τὸ ψαλμικ(ὸν) μέλισμα ἡμῶν πτυκτίον:
	τῆ σῆ κελεύσει χριστε πόρρω φευγέτω:
	οὕτως δι' αὐτοῦ ὕμνον ἐμμελοδί(ας):
	σοὶ προσφέρωμεν ὡς θ(ε)ῶ καθ' ἡμέρ(αν).

Type(s)	[5430] Ὥσπερ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ Σαοῦλ τὸ συμπνίγον (7 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 Scribe-related epigram
Subject(s)	David Jesus Christ (10 BC-1 BC - 30-33) Music Psalter Saul
Bibliography	Primary E. Martini, D. Bassi, 1906, Catalogus codicum graecorum Bibliothecae Ambrosianae (vol. 1), Milan: 532 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	7
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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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