Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24326
(formerly occ/8288)

	ὥσπερ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ σαοὺλ \| τὸ συμπνίγον
	δα(υί)δ διώκει τῆ βοῆ τῆς κινύρας,
	οὐτως γε καὶ νῦν ἡ φάλαξ τ(ῶν) δαιμόνων,
	τὸ ψαλμικὸν \| μέλπουσιν ἡμῖν πυκτίον·
	τῆ σῆ κελεύσι χ(ριστ)ὲ πό\|ρρω φευγέτω·
	ὅπως δι’ αὐτοῦ ὕμνον ἐν μελωδία, \|
	σοὶ προσφέρομεν ὡς θ(ε)ῶ καθημέραν:-

Type(s)	[5430] Ὥσπερ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ Σαοῦλ τὸ συμπνίγον (7 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1419
Manuscript	PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 12 [1419]
Place in Manuscript	f. Br-Bv
Person(s)	Scribe Matthaios (15th c.) - RGK: II.371 - VGH: 297.K
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
Comment	The epigram is the last in a series of six poems.
Image source(s)	https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10723735c/f6.item.zoom
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: 173 (n. 73) G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 216-217
Number of verses	7
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Maria Tomadaki Contributor(s) 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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