Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 24523
(formerly occ/8484)

	δα(υὶ)δ μελωδεύοντι τ(ῆς) ἐκκλησίας:
	ὃς τί πρὸς αὐτ(ὸν) ἐκπλαγεῖς τραγωδία:
	τῶων φύ(σεις) θελγοντά που κ(αὶ) δενδρέ(ων):
	ἀλλ ορφέα κρούοντ(α) θείαν πυκτίδ(α):
	θ(εὸ)ν σέβοντα δ ὃν πάροιθεν ἠγνό(ουν):
	τὸ καιν(ὸν) ἅσμα ποῖος ἔψετ(αι) νόος:
	ορφέα τοῦτον· οὐ τ(ὸν) ἔξω πρὸς φράσο:
	ὃς τοῖς μέλεσιν ἔπετ εθνέων γένη:

Type(s)	[1895] Δαυὶδ μελῳδέοντι τῆς ἐκκλησίας (9 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Autopsy of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1116
Manuscript	MESSINA - Biblioteca Universitaria - S. Salv. 117 [1115-1116]
Place in Manuscript	f. 239r
Person(s)	Scribe Leon of Rhegion < Calabria < Southern Italy < Italy (12th c.) - RGK: III.390 - VGH: 262.D (notarios)
Contextual information	Fourth of a series of epigrams. Written without distinction with the one which precedes, 'ὥσπερ τὸ πν(εῦμ)α τὸν σαοῦλ τὸ συμπτίγο(ν)', and the one which follows, 'ἄκουε δα(υί)δ τοῦ παρ' ἡμῖν ὀρφέως'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	David Music Orpheus Psalter
Bibliography	Primary G. Parpulov, 2014, Toward a History of Byzantine Psalters, Plovdiv: 221
Number of verses	8
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Maria Tomadaki Transcriber(s) Nina Sietis Contributor(s) Nina Sietis, Mathijs Clement, 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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