Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22318
(formerly occ/6201)

	στίχοι τοῦ Γεωμέτρου εἰς τὸ ψαλτήρ(ιον):

	Σίγησον ὀρφεῦ ῥίψον ἑρμῆ τ(ὴν) λύραν·
	τρίπους ὁ δελφοῖς δύνον εἰς λήθην ἔτι·
	δ(αυὶ)δ γὰρ ἡμῖν, πν(εύματο)ς κρούει λύραν
	τρανοῖ τὰ κρυπτὰ τ(ῶν) θ(εο)ῦ μυστηρίων·
	πληθὺν παλαιὰν ἱστορεῖ τεραστίων·
	κινεῖ πρὸ(ς) ὕμνον τοῦ κτίσαντο(ς) τ(ὴν) κτίσιν
	ἅπαν τὸ σῶζον μυσταγωγεῖ (καὶ) γράφει·
	ἁμαρτάνοντ(ας) εἰς ἐπιστροφὴν φέρει·
	πολλοῖς σὺν ἄλλοις κ(αὶ) κριτοῦ δηλοῖ κρίσ(ιν)
	σμήχ(ειν) διδάσκει ψυχικὰς ἁμαρτάδας:·

Type(s)	[3271] Σίγησον, Ὀρφεῦ· ῥίψον, Ἑρμῆ, τὴν λύραν (10 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	13th c.
Manuscript	ATHOS - Mone Dionysiou 60 [13th c.]
Place in Manuscript	f. 10r
Palaeographical information	The title and the initial are written in red ink.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	David Hermes Music Orpheus Psalter
Bibliography	Primary S. Lampros, 1895, Κατάλογος τῶν ἐν ταῖς βιβλιοθήκαις τοῦ Ἁγίου Ὄρους ἑλληνικῶν κωδίκων (vol. 1), Cambridge: 323 G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 218
Number of verses	10
Related occurrence(s)	[33490] Σίγησον ὀρφεῦ, ῥίψων ἑρμῆ τὴν λύραν MILAN - Biblioteca Ambrosiana G 94 sup. [01/02/1464-29/02/1464] (f. IIv) (10 verses) (2/10) [19855] Σίγησον ὀρφεῦ, ῥίψον ἑρμῆ τὴν λύραν [15th c.] OXFORD - Bodleian Library - Barocci 160 [15th c.] (f. 1v) (10 verses) (10/10)
Acknowledgements	Inspection of the manuscript image was possible by courtesy of the monk Gabriel (Mone Dionysiou). Creator(s) Dimitrios Skrekas Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Maria Tomadaki, 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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