Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 21817
(formerly occ/5675)

	Τοῦ πν(εῦματο)ς τὰ θεῖα, τόξα καὶ τὰ βέλη:
	Τείνας ὁ δα(υὶ)δ, ψαλμοκι\|νήτω λύρα·
	Ἅπασαν ὄντως, προσβολὴν μὲν δαιμόν(ων)·
	Ψάλλει τιτρώσκει. καὶ διώκει καὶ τρέπει:
	Πιστῶν δὲ πᾶσαν. πρὸν θ(εὸ)ν πτεροῖ φρένα:

Type(s)	[3878] Τοῦ Πνεύματος τὰ θεῖα τόξα καὶ βέλη (7 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1452
Manuscript	SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 27 [1452]
Place in Manuscript	f. 508r
Person(s)	Scribe Markos Paulopoulos (15th c.) - PLP: IX.22084 (protopapas of Chandax < Crete < Greece, thytes)
Palaeographical information	Initials of each line written in red ink.
Contextual information	It is preceded by another epigram, inc. 'Ἄκουε Δαυίδ, τοῦ παρ' ἡμῖν Ὀρφέως'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	David Music Psalter
Comment	The epigram is a shorter version of the type that normally ends with two more verses: καὶ τῶν χαμερπῶν ἐξανιστᾷ φροντίδων· \| πρὸς τὴν ἐν ἔργοις ψυχικὴν σωτηρίαν. Benesevic (1911: 22) edits them before the others, but actually in this manuscript they belong to the first epigram.
Image source(s)	https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00271077294-ms/?sp=527
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: 174 (n. 80) V. Beneševič, 1911, Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum graecorum qui in monasterio Sanctae Catharinae in monte asservantur. Codices manuscripti notabiliores bibliothecae monasterii Sinaitici ejusque metochii Cahirensis, ab archimandrita Porphyrio (Uspenskio) descripti (vol. 1), Saint-Petersburg: 22 G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 217 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: 168 (n. 40)
Number of verses	5
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