Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 22989
(formerly occ/6883)

	+ τις σου φράσαι προφῆτα δα(υι)δ ισχυσει: \|
	των δογματων τὲ καὶ ξένων χαρισμάτων:
	τὸν πλοῦτον ὅνπερ ἡ χάρις του πνεύματος: \|
	παρεσχεν οντων εις βροτῶν σωτηρίαν:
	ἀλλ᾽ οὖν νῦν ημεῖς ὠς θεοῦ σαρκώσεως: \|
	γεννήτορα γράφοντες ὑμνοῦμεν πόθω:

Type(s)	[5708] Τίς σου φράσαι, προφῆτα Δαυίδ, ἰσχύσει (6 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	926-975
Manuscript	VATICAN CITY - Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana - Reg. gr. 1 [926-975]
Place in Manuscript	f. 487v
Person(s)	Patron Leon Sakellarios (10th c.) - PMBZ: 26573: "Personenkennziffer: 24419"
Palaeographical information	Written in red ink, in Spitzbogenmajuskel.
Contextual information	The epigram surrounds a miniature of David.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram Image-related epigram Text-related epigram
Subject(s)	David
Image source(s)	https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Reg.gr.1.pt.B/0040
Bibliography	Primary C. Mango 2011, The Epigrams, in P. Canart (ed.), La Bible du Patrice Léon. Codex Reginensis Graecus 1, Città del Vaticano, 59-79: 75 T. Mathews 1977, The Epigrams of Leo Sacellarios and an Exegetical Approach to the Miniatures of Vat. Reg. Gr. 1, Orientalia Christiana periodica, 43, 94-134: 132 G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 234 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 492 Secondary M. Lauxtermann, 2003, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres (vol. 1), Vienna: 348
Number of verses	6
Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) Anne-Sophie Rouckhout, Rachele Ricceri The credits system has been implemented in 2019. Credits from before the new system was in use might be incomplete.
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