Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams

Occurrence 26439
(formerly occ/10498)

	ἐνταῦθα τὴν θέλγουσαν εἰκότως λύραν·
	κινῶν τελῶν(ας), συγκινεῖ καὶ τοὺς λίθους·
	ὅθεν πλᾶνος σίγησον ὀρφέως λύρα·
	πόνοις ἰωάννης γὰρ ἥρμωσε ξένην·
	καθἡμεροῦσαν· τὴν λιθότροπον φύσ(ιν).+

Type(s)	[1945] Ἐνταῦθα τὴν θέλγουσαν εἰκότως λύραν (5 verses)
Text source	DBBE (Inspection of a reproduction of the manuscript)
Text status	Text completely known
Date	1124
Manuscript	SINAI - Mone tes Hagias Aikaterines - gr. 193 [1124]
Place in Manuscript	f. 322v
Person(s)	Scribe Ioannes Kalos (12th c.) - VGH: 227.F (hiereus)
Contextual information	Although there is no visual separation, the poem is preceded by one more epigram, inc. 'εὐαγγελιστῶν τοὺς θεοπνεύστους λόγους'.
Metre(s)	Dodecasyllable
Genre(s)	Author-related epigram
Subject(s)	Matthew (evangelist, saint) (1st c.) Music Orpheus
Image source(s)	https://www.loc.gov/resource/amedmonastery.00271078572-ms/?sp=330
Bibliography	Primary D. Harlfinger, D. Reinsch, J. Sonderkamp, G. Prato, 1983, Specimina Sinaitica. Die datierten griechischen Handschriften des Katharinen-Klosters auf dem Berge Sinai, 9. bis 12. Jahrhundert, Berlin: 44 A. Rhoby, 2018, Ausgewählte Byzantinische Epigramme in Illuminierten Handschriften, Wien: 369-370 R. Stefec 2011, Anmerkungen zu weiteren Epigrammen in epigraphischer Auszeichnungsmajuskel, Byzantion, 81, 326-361: 350-351 Secondary K. Weitzmann, G. Galavaris, 1990, The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The Illuminated Greek Manuscripts. From the Ninth to the Twelfth Century (vol. 1), Princeton: 137
Number of verses	5
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Acknowledgements	Creator(s) Rachele Ricceri Transcriber(s) Rachele Ricceri 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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